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San Francisco Plaza, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Reserve census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87830. It lies near Magdalena Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Reserve quadrangle.

San Francisco Plaza within Catron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of San Francisco Plaza between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,169 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 11 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
Natural79
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Other causes1

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 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGila National ForestFISHER
12 September 2012Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestHIGHLOWER
9 August 1993Naturalunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
8 August 1993Natural3.0 acresGila National Forestnot named
7 August 1995Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestBLUE
4 August 1994Naturalunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
31 August 1997Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestDUMP
29 August 1994Naturalunder an acreGila National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catron County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of San Francisco Plaza: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
S. U. Canyon Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Starkweather PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Catron 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
Reserve1.4 miles14
Lower San Francisco Plaza2.4 miles14
Rancho Grande Estates5.1 miles14
Potato Patch8.7 miles14
Cruzville9.5 miles13
Aspen Mountain10.6 miles15
Apache Creek12.2 miles13
Luna13.2 miles14

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 Francisco PlazaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7414087The 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 923678. 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.