San Patricio, New Mexico
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Hondo census division. It lies near Cerro San Patricio. The Survey maps it on the San Patricio quadrangle. It stands 5,436 feet above sea level.
On record in San Patricio
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 2 records
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ruidoso quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS San Patricio quadrangle1:24000
- 2004 USGS San Patricio quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
62 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of San Patricio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 402 acres in total. 5 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 | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.4 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SEDILLO |
| 9 July 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FELIZ |
| 5 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MM 104 |
| 5 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MCDANIEL |
| 4 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ROSE |
| 17 July 2017 | Natural | 1.1 acres | Capitan District | ALAMO |
| 4 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CARMICHEAL |
| 29 June 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LOUIS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of San Patricio: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Hondo and Rio Ruidoso Valley Gypsum Deposit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Gypsum |
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Patricio in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 3 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Hail | San Patricio | - | Hail up to the size of tennis balls along U.S. Highway 380 north of San Patricio. |
| April 2010 | Hail | San Patricio | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | San Patricio | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hondo | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Tinnie | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Glencoe | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Lincoln | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Escondido (historical) | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Baca (historical) | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| Double Crossing | 10.1 miles | 14 | |
| Picacho | 10.4 miles | 9 |
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 Patricio | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7415086 | 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 923683. 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.







