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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.

San Patricio within Lincoln County

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 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

62 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.4 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSEDILLO
9 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFELIZ
5 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM 104
5 July 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMCDANIEL
4 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROSE
17 July 2017Natural1.1 acresCapitan DistrictALAMO
4 June 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCARMICHEAL
29 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOUIS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rio Hondo and Rio Ruidoso Valley Gypsum DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018HailSan Patricio-Hail up to the size of tennis balls along U.S. Highway 380 north of San Patricio.
April 2010HailSan Patricio-no account filed
May 2010HailSan Patricio-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Hondo3.3 miles9
Tinnie5.9 miles9
Glencoe6.5 miles9
Lincoln6.5 miles9
Escondido (historical)7.1 miles9
Baca (historical)9.0 miles13
Double Crossing10.1 miles14
Picacho10.4 miles9

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 PatricioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7415086The 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.