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San Acacia, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Socorro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87831. It stands on Arroyo Chanthe. The Survey maps it on the San Acacia quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,672 feet above sea level.

San Acacia within Socorro County

Population over time

2 figures

San Acacia fell from 44 to 38 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
201044
202038-6 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Cattle feed and look around their surroundings on plowed farmland near San Acacia in central New Mexico
Cattle feed and look around their surroundings on plowed farmland near San Acacia in central New Mexico
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Entrance to a horse ranch near San Acacia in central New Mexico
Entrance to a horse ranch near San Acacia in central New Mexico
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
A narrow irrigation canal runs through farmland near San Acacia in central New Mexico
A narrow irrigation canal runs through farmland near San Acacia in central New Mexico
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

51 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of San Acacia between 1995 and 2019, burning about 142 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning8
Natural4
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
28 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM168-25
23 August 2010Natural2.0 acresSevilleta National Wildlife RefugeBOWLING GREEN
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSocorro District20-30170202X
5 July 2013Naturalunder an acreSevilleta National Wildlife RefugeCEMETERY
4 July 2002Natural55 acresSevilleta National Wildlife RefugeBOOT
2 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division164
3 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROBERTA
22 June 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionACACIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Socorro County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of San Acacia: 6 unknowns, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Lead, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Bachelder-Everheart ProspectBarium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, LeadPast Producer
DeweyBarium-Barite, Calcium, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Dewey MineLead, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1902
Dewey MineBarium-Barite, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, LeadOccurrence
Joyita ProspectsIron, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, SilicaOccurrence
Lemitar MountainsUraniumOccurrence
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Socorro County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Acacia in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020HailSan Acacia-A trained spotter near San Acacia reported hail up to the size of pennies for approximately 20 minutes.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSan Acacia-Thunderstorm outflow wind gusts up to 60 mph were reported near San Acacia.
July 2000HailSan Acacia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Socorro 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
Alamillo0.9 miles9
La Joyita (historical)2.1 miles10
Chamizal2.7 miles13
Polvadera3.7 miles13
McNierney4.3 miles13
San Geronimo5.6 miles10
Lemitar6.6 miles13
La Joya6.9 miles10

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 San AcaciaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7413203The 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 923674. 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.