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San Ignacio, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Santa Rosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88435. It stands on CaƱada Bonita. The Survey maps it on the San Ignacio quadrangle.

San Ignacio within Guadalupe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of San Ignacio between 1999 and 2019, burning about 4,267 acres in total. None 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
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOPEZ
23 August 2000Smoking5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTHOMPSON
23 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresLas Vegas District19-40650444X
31 March 2011Fireworks3,079 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBRUSH
2 March 2000Smoking10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROSA
19 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPINTADA
19 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJUNCTION
26 January 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined640 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPASTURA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of San Ignacio: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Calcium, Uranium, Copper, Silver, Lead. 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
American Uranium ProspectUranium, Copper, Silver, LeadOccurrence
Materials Pit 57-13-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pintada GroupCopper, SilverPast Producer
Porcupine ProspectCopper, Silver, Uranium, LeadOccurrence1952
Materials Pit 57-5-SCalciumProducer
Materials Pit 66-46-SCalciumPast Producer
Pintada MineCopperPast Producer1895, 1939, 1970

Every working recorded in Guadalupe County

Storms near this place

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Ignacio in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSan Ignacio-The Thompson Cattle mesonet station measured a 62 mph wind gust as showers moved through the area.
June 2025Flash FloodSan Ignacio-Large accumulations of hail covering areas along I-40 combined with heavy rainfall resulted in rushing water over the roadways and drainages to overflow their banks.
May 2017Funnel CloudSan Ignacio-Media crew with KRQE spotted a funnel cloud just north of Interstate 40 near U.S. Highway 84.
May 2017HailSan Ignacio-Hail up to the size of half dollars reported along Interstate 40 at mile marker 252.
July 2016HailSan Ignacio-Nickel hail west of Santa Rosa.

Every storm recorded in Guadalupe 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
Vegas Junction5.0 miles6
Pintada7.0 miles6
Pastura9.0 miles6
Arabella9.2 miles6
Sombrio (historical)10.7 miles6
Agua Negra (historical)13.6 miles7
Santa Rosa14.1 miles7
Colonias14.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899895. 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.