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Pinedale, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87311. The Survey maps it on the Pinedale quadrangle. 485 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Pinedale within McKinley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pinedale between 2011 and 2012, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPOSE
20 May 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementPINEDALE 1ST CYN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pinedale: 5 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed OccurrenceGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrencePodiform
Westwater No. 1 MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1957, 1960
Blm Mineral Sale MS Nm-016-85-6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kent Nowlin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Prospect 2 Uran DepositUraniumUnknown
Pyramid GroupUraniumPast Producer
Section 21 Uran DepositUraniumUnknown
Section 22 Uran DepositUraniumUnknown
Section 23 Uran DepositUraniumUnknown
United Nuclear Uranium Mill (Facility)UraniumPlant

Every working recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinedale in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2009Flash FloodPinedale$5,000A vehicle was washed away in an arroyo near the intersection of Second Canyon Road and Highway N11-49 (also called Navajo Service Route 11).

Every storm recorded in McKinley County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Iyanbito5.9 miles14
Mariano Lake6.9 miles14
Perea7.8 miles15
Ciniza7.9 miles17
Wingate8.1 miles15
Jamestown8.6 miles17
North Guam8.9 miles16
Navajo Wingate Village8.9 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on PinedaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195480The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 902839. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.