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San Lorenzo, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Mimbres census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88041. It lies near Noonday Canyon. The Survey maps it on the San Lorenzo quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,732 feet above sea level.

San Lorenzo within Grant County

On record in San Lorenzo

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 6 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

San Lorenzo grew from 97 to 148 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
201097
2020148+51 (+53%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of San Lorenzo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 390 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined32
Natural11
Debris and open burning7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2012Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSEPT 6TH
15 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMILLER
3 August 2011Natural3.0 acresGila National ForestHOT SPRINGS
17 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDOCTOR
9 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLAWS
6 July 2009Natural5.5 acresGila National ForestBEAR TRAP
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOWER ACLAIN
3 July 2002Smoking1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 Lorenzo: 10 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Perlite, Zinc. 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
Materials Pit 66-50-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mill AditZinc, Lead, Silver, CopperUnknown
Unnamed ProspectZinc, Copper, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopper, Silver, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Box Well Graben Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 1PerliteOccurrence
Unnamed MineCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed MineCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Lorenzo in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 5 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
July 2000Flash FloodSan Lorenzo$50,000A slow moving cluster of thunderstorms dropped very heavy rain around San Lorenzo, which resulted in the Mimbres River flooding its banks and submerging Highway 152. The highway was closed, with the water level rising 15 feet above normal to cover a bridge. Some homes in San Lorenzo experienced water damage.
August 2021Flash FloodSan Lorenzo-Highway 61 south of San Lorenzo was impassable due to heavy rain and resulting flash flooding.
July 2013Flash FloodSan Lorenzo-A spotter reported cars that were stuck and couldn't pass through deep water on Highway 35 near mile marker 11 about 3 miles south of Mimbres.
July 2013Flash FloodSan Lorenzo-Gallinas Canyon flooded at the low water crossing along the De-La-O Road just northeast of Sherman.
July 2013Flash FloodSan Lorenzo-An NWS Employee reported some water crossing the highway near the intersection of Highway 35 and Highway 152 near San Lorenzo.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Casas Adobes1.1 miles9
San Juan3.5 miles9
Mimbres4.5 miles9
Sherman4.7 miles8
Santa Rita (historical)7.5 miles17
Union Hill8.6 miles17
Wimsattville8.7 miles17
Fierro8.7 miles17

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 LorenzoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7414683The 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 920693. 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.