Pintada, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vaughn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88435. The Survey maps it on the Pintada quadrangle. It stands 5,308 feet above sea level.

Pintada within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Pintada quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pintada between 1995 and 2018, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 June 2016	Natural	15 acres	Las Vegas District	THOMPSON FIRE
2 March 2000	Smoking	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROSA
10 March 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PASTURA
5 February 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Las Vegas District	PINTADA
19 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PINTADA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pintada: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Materials Pit 57-13-F	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Guadalupe County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pintada in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2017	Hail	Pintada	$1,000	Hail up to the size of quarters near Milagro. Spotter reported that a family members windshield was smashed from this same storm farther to the north of this location.
May 2024	Hail	Pintada	-	A storm chaser travelling along Interstate 40 reported ping pong ball size hail from a severe storm moving east along the interstate.
June 2023	Hail	Pintada	-	One inch hail fell 4 miles south of Milagro in western Guadalupe County in association with a supercell. Hail accumulations of up to 3 inches occurred at that location.
June 1999	Hail	Pintada	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Pintada	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Pintada	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guadalupe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sombrio (historical)	3.7 miles	6
San Ignacio	7.0 miles	6
Vegas Junction	7.8 miles	6
Pastura	9.6 miles	6
Milagro	9.7 miles	6
Leoncito	14.9 miles	6
Arabella	15.3 miles	6
Tony	19.3 miles	6

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.

Wikidata item Q92718204

The 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 899850. 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.