San Francisco, New Mexico

11 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 87006. It stands on Rio Puerco. The Survey maps it on the Abeytas quadrangle. 152 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 4,731 feet above sea level.

San Francisco within Socorro County

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.

1916 USGS La Joya quadrangle1:125000
1952 USGS Abeytas quadrangle1:24000, 4 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

Fires near this place

61 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of San Francisco between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,406 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
1 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Socorro District	LABOR DAY
5 July 1998	Natural	under an acre	Cibola National Forest	BURRO
3 July 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge	SABINAL
18 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BERNARDO
17 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	COTTONWOOD
12 July 2000	Natural	14 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GERONIMO
7 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge	TRACK
6 June 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Socorro District	FRISCO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Socorro County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of San Francisco: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Name Unknown Bentonite Prospect	Bentonite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Materials Pit 57-118-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit 57-120-S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Materials Pit 57-43-F	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Vignali Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bernardo	1.6 miles	11
Contreras	1.6 miles	11
La Joya	3.4 miles	10
San Geronimo	4.6 miles	10
Abeytas	5.2 miles	11
Las Nutrias	6.7 miles	11
Sabinal	7.0 miles	11
Red Mill	8.4 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 Francisco	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125584517	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 923677. 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.