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San Miguel, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Cuba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87013. It lies near San Miguelito Canyon. The Survey maps it on the San Pablo quadrangle.

San Miguel within Sandoval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of San Miguel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 47 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
Natural47
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
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
29 September 2000Natural1.0 acresAlbuquerque District OfficeHWY 44
23 September 2000Natural4.5 acresSanta Fe National ForestAUTUMN
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestSAN MIGUEL
14 September 2018Natural14 acresSanta Fe National ForestBALES
8 August 1993Natural5.0 acresSanta Fe National Forestnot named
8 August 1992Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
6 August 1994Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
30 August 1994Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of San Miguel: 11 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone. 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
Butler Brothers MineVanadium, UraniumPast Producer1954, 1955, 1959
Clod Buster No. 1StoneProducerSedimentary
San Miguel MineSilver, Copper, Uranium, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast Producer1882, 1884, 1966
Kolosa Placer ClaimCopperPast Producer
Warm SpringsCopperPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit Number 61-34-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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
San Pablo2.2 miles19
Señorito4.5 miles19
Copper City (historical)6.1 miles17
Deer Lake6.4 miles19
LaVentana6.7 miles19
Lagunitas6.7 miles19
O'Neil Landing7.0 miles20
Cuba7.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 910672. 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.