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.
Population over time
2 figuresSan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 44 | |
| 2020 | 38 | -6 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS La Joya quadrangle1:125000
- 1952 USGS San Anacia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
3 photographs, 2020Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
51 since 1995Regional 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/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MM168-25 |
| 23 August 2010 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge | BOWLING GREEN |
| 14 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Socorro District | 20-30170202X |
| 5 July 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge | CEMETERY |
| 4 July 2002 | Natural | 55 acres | Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge | BOOT |
| 2 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | 164 |
| 3 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ROBERTA |
| 22 June 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ACACIA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelder-Everheart Prospect | Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Dewey | Barium-Barite, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | ||
| Dewey Mine | Lead, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1902 | |
| Dewey Mine | Barium-Barite, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Joyita Prospects | Iron, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Lemitar Mountains | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
3 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Hail | San Acacia | - | A trained spotter near San Acacia reported hail up to the size of pennies for approximately 20 minutes. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Acacia | - | Thunderstorm outflow wind gusts up to 60 mph were reported near San Acacia. |
| July 2000 | Hail | San Acacia | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alamillo | 0.9 miles | 9 | |
| La Joyita (historical) | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Chamizal | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Polvadera | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| McNierney | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| San Geronimo | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Lemitar | 6.6 miles | 13 | |
| La Joya | 6.9 miles | 10 |
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 Acacia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7413203 | 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 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.





