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Sacramento, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Southeast Otero census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88347. It lies near Pendleton Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sacramento quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,287 feet above sea level.

Sacramento within Otero County

On record in Sacramento

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Sacramento fell from 58 to 53 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201058
202053-5 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Sacramento between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,968 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 1 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
Natural53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestSEEP
21 September 2011Natural12 acresLincoln National ForestBLUE WATER
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestHIDDEN SPRINGS
6 August 2016Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestHOOSIER
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestEHART
3 August 2019Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestHAY
3 August 2012Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestBELL II
23 August 2010Naturalunder an acreLincoln National ForestAKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sacramento in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2000Flash FloodSacramento$50,000A thunderstorm dropped heavy rain on an area scarred from a recent forest fire. Mudslides, ash and debris covered roads and damaged some buildings around Sacramento.
June 2022Flash FloodSacramento-Highway 130 was closed due to widespread flash flooding west of Weed.
May 2012HailSacramento-Relayed by sheriffs office. A public report from Telephone Canyon reported up to one inch diameter hail during thunderstorm.
July 2012Heavy RainSacramento-A local weather spotter recorded 1.50 inches of rainfall from a thunderstorm that passed over his location. Minor street flooding was reported in southeast portions of Timberon, NM.
July 2009HailSacramento-Nickel and quarter size hail fell near the cafe in Weed, NM.
August 2007HailSacramento-Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size fell at the Sacramento Post Office.
October 2015HailSacramento-no account filed
October 2015HailSacramento-no account filed
May 2012HailSacramento-no account filed
May 2006HailSacramento-no account filed
May 2006HailSacramento-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otero 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
Weed2.4 miles11
Maxon4.6 miles11
Crisp5.6 miles8
Mayhill8.0 miles9
Hortonville8.3 miles11
Avis8.5 miles8
Chippeway Park11.1 miles11
Marcia11.3 miles11

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 SacramentoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6116705The 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 920682. 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.

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.