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San Mateo, New Mexico

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87020. It lies in San Mateo Canyon. The Survey maps it on the San Mateo quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,313 feet above sea level.

San Mateo within Cibola County

Population over time

2 figures

San Mateo fell from 161 to 139 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
2010161
2020139-22 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

43 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of San Mateo between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,696 acres in total. 28 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
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony8
Fireworks2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2009Recreation and ceremony15 acresCibola National ForestBUCKHORN
27 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named
18 September 2004Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestBROOKS
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestLAKE
4 August 2000Natural2.0 acresCibola National ForestRITO
31 August 2004Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestHUNTER
20 August 2003Natural2.5 acresCibola National ForestLEE
15 August 2012Natural12 acresCibola National ForestAUGUST NIGHT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of San Mateo: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. 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
Mount Taylor MineUranium, MolybdenumProducer1980
Materials Pit 58-114-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Wx Lobo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fernandez-Main Ranch DepositUraniumOccurrence1968
June MineUraniumPast Producer
Palo Verde GroupUraniumOccurrence
San Mateo MineUraniumPast Producer1957, 1959, 1970
Uran DepositUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Cibola County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Mateo in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
July 2008Flash FloodSan Mateo$10,000Flooding was reported on State Road 53 near Grants, State Road 605 north of Grants and State Road 279 near Seboyeta and Cebolletita. Street flooding in Grants reached a depth of one foot. Floodwaters also topped a bridge near San Rafael.

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
Lobo Canyon9.1 miles20
Casa Fria10.4 miles19
Broadview14.0 miles20
Seboyeta16.2 miles19
Toltec16.3 miles20
Golden Acres16.4 miles20
Grants16.8 miles20
Cebolletita17.0 miles19

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 MateoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7414905The 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 910660. 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.