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San Fidel, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87049. It lies near Mesa Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cubero quadrangle. 124 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,175 feet above sea level.

San Fidel within Cibola County

On record in San Fidel

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

San Fidel fell from 138 to 124 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
2010138
2020124-14 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of San Fidel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 492 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 were 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
Debris and open burning97
Smoking17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Fireworks6
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCANIPA
29 September 2000Smokingunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCORNFIELD
29 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencySHINGLE
12 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyACOMA FD 16
10 August 2009Debris and open burning2.3 acresLaguna AgencyFLOWER MTN.
7 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLaguna AgencyYORK
5 July 2017Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencySANTA MARIA
5 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyJUNCTION32

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of San Fidel: 8 producers, 5 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Basalt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crusher PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cubero Land Grant Association PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Materials Pit M-19581Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Pit 57-71-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 60-52-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 61-23-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 62-28-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit M1513cSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Cibola County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Fidel in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Flash FloodSan Fidel$25,000Heavy rain in the San Fidel area caused major flooding of arroyos and washed out County Road 13. Damages are estimated.
July 2022Flash FloodSan Fidel-A trained spotter near San Fidel reported flash flooding on San Jose Loop. No damages are known.
June 2022HailSan Fidel-A trained spotter near San Fidel reported quarter size hail that had accumulated to about an inch deep.
October 2017Flash FloodSan Fidel-Flash flooding along nearby arroyo approaching home. Residents trapped in home. No damage reported.
August 2016HailSan Fidel-Pea size to penny size hail accumulated up to four inches deep on Interstate 40 near San Fidel and highway 124 near McCartys. One vehicle slid off the highway.
August 2006Flash FloodSan Fidel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cibola 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
Acomita Lake1.1 miles18
Alaska2.0 miles18
North Acomita Village2.2 miles18
West Village2.2 miles18
Acomita2.4 miles18
Villa de Cubero3.0 miles18
McCartys4.0 miles18
Budville4.0 miles18

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 FidelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4960393The 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 923676. 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.