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Sabinoso, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Conchas Dam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87746. It lies near CaƱon Sabinoso. The Survey maps it on the Sabinoso quadrangle.

Sabinoso within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sabinoso between 1996 and 2016, burning about 590 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
20 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCARLOS
23 July 2016Natural1.0 acresLas Vegas District17 MILE
17 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
9 June 1996Natural24 acresAlbuquerque District OfficeGRANDE
15 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictGUTIERREZ
24 April 2000Natural10 acresTaos Field OfficeTRAILER
24 March 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBACK
23 January 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGUTIERREZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Sabinoso: 10 unknowns, 4 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium. 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
Bish No 2 MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Lester's CabinVanadium, Copper, UraniumOccurrence
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Cip LujanUraniumUnknown
El Villa ClaimUraniumProspect
Hunt Oil CoUraniumUnknown
Key ClaimsUraniumUnknown
Lujan Cattle CoUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sabinoso in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 2 hail, 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
August 2013Flash FloodSabinoso$10,000Sabinoso experienced a highly intense rainfall event that caused severe damage to CR-55-A. Runoff severely eroded the roadway including the complete removal of the sub-base and base course materials. Cutting of drainage ditches was severe and left deep crevasses along the edge of the driving lanes that created a severe safety issue for motor vehicles.
June 2005HailSabinoso-no account filed
June 2005HailSabinoso-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Miguel 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
Ancon1.5 miles7
Sanchez5.0 miles7
San Ramon10.5 miles7
San Rafael14.5 miles6
New Trementina16.8 miles6
Trementina17.0 miles13
Trujillo18.8 miles13
Corazon (historical)20.3 miles13

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 Q122565256The 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 899887. 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.