San Rafael, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Trementina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88439. It stands on Arroyo Hondo. The Survey maps it on the Variadero quadrangle.

San Rafael within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Variadero quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of San Rafael between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,344 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	6
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
10 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM46
5 July 2020	Natural	175 acres	Las Vegas District	56 A
17 July 2009	Natural	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CONCHAS RANCH
13 July 2020	Natural	825 acres	Las Vegas District	TREMENTINA CANYON
8 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HOTSY
23 June 2005	Natural	6.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CORAZON
2 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	VIGIL
18 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GHOST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel 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 Rafael: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium. 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
	Windy No. 9 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1952, 1956

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
New Trementina	2.8 miles	6
Trementina	4.1 miles	13
San Ramon	4.3 miles	7
Variadero	7.2 miles	6
Corazon (historical)	8.4 miles	13
Sanchez	9.5 miles	7
Adero Az	9.5 miles	6
Trujillo	12.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 924504. 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.