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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.

San Miguel within Doña Ana County

Population over time

2 figures

San 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,153
2020975-178 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

5 since 2002

Regional 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/undetermined5

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
2 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeLAVA ROCK
12 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDAM FIRE
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresLas Cruces Field Office1136
24 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeLA MESA
14 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeMESQUITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials Pit 59-18-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand and Gravel
Name Unknown Scoria DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrenceScoria
Santo Tomas MineVolcanic MaterialsProducer
Santo Tomas Scoria DepositVolcanic MaterialsProducerScoria

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
Santo Tomas1.9 miles15
Mesquite2.1 miles15
La Mesa2.7 miles15
Vado4.9 miles15
San Pablo6.8 miles14
Tortugas8.0 miles15
Four Points8.0 miles15
Chamberino8.4 miles15

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 MiguelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16085733The 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.