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Sanchez, New Mexico

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Trementina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87746. The Survey maps it on the Sabinoso quadrangle.

Sanchez within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sanchez between 1994 and 2019, burning about 133 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
20 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCARLOS
23 July 2016Natural1.0 acresLas Vegas District17 MILE
21 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHERRERA
17 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
11 July 2019Natural2.2 acresLas Vegas District20-40070054X
9 June 1996Natural24 acresAlbuquerque District OfficeGRANDE
15 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictGUTIERREZ
24 April 2000Natural10 acresTaos Field OfficeTRAILER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sanchez: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Copper, Uranium. 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
Bish No 2 MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
Lester's CabinVanadium, Copper, UraniumOccurrence
Hunt Oil CoUraniumUnknown
Mikie V ClaimsUraniumUnknown
SabUraniumProspect
T ClaimsUraniumUnknown
Verde MineUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanchez in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2013Flash FloodSanchez$95,000Off duty NWS employee reported while traveling in northeast NM. Met with a highway patrol supervisor who gave information on a flash flood event that did considerable damage to sections of SR 419 just north of Trementina. NMDOT was in the process of replacing two bridges (1/8 mile apart) that span arroyos in this area and had temporary detours in place. The water took out a total of three 7 foot culverts that had been in place for over a decade and a local rancher said the water was 7-8 feet deep. It scoured the pavement.
May 2017HailSanchez-Nickel to quarter size hail 10 miles east-southeast of Maes.
August 2017HailSanchez-Hail up to the size of golf balls reported 10 miles east-southeast of Maes.
August 2017HailSanchez-Hail up to the size of baseballs reported with supercell storm north of Trementina. This may be the same storm that resulted in a fatal aircraft accident of an elderly man attempting to reach a private air strip in the area.
June 2003HailSanchez-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sabinoso5.0 miles7
San Ramon5.6 miles7
Ancon6.1 miles7
San Rafael9.5 miles6
New Trementina11.9 miles6
Trementina12.2 miles13
Trujillo15.6 miles13
Corazon (historical)15.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 898596. 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.