San Miguel, New Mexico
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the South Doña Ana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88044. The Survey maps it on the San Miguel quadrangle. 975 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,822 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSan Miguel fell from 1,153 to 975 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,153 | |
| 2020 | 975 | -178 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS La Mesa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS San Miguel quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS San Miguel quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of San Miguel between 2002 and 2015, burning about 56 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | LAVA ROCK |
| 12 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DAM FIRE |
| 4 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | 1136 |
| 24 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | LA MESA |
| 14 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Las Cruces Field Office | MESQUITE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of San Miguel: 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit 59-18-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand and Gravel | |
| Name Unknown Scoria Deposit | Volcanic Materials | Occurrence | Scoria | |
| Santo Tomas Mine | Volcanic Materials | Producer | ||
| Santo Tomas Scoria Deposit | Volcanic Materials | Producer | Scoria |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santo Tomas | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Mesquite | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| La Mesa | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Vado | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| San Pablo | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Tortugas | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Four Points | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Chamberino | 8.4 miles | 15 |
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 Miguel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16085733 | 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 920696. 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.







