Serafina, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Pecos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87569. It lies near Starvation Peak. The Survey maps it on the Tecolote quadrangle. It stands 6,204 feet above sea level.

Serafina within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1890 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:62500
1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Tecolote quadrangle1:24000
2002 USGS Tecolote quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Serafina between 1994 and 2020, burning about 326 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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	17
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
20 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	20-40190191X
9 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	CHICO
6 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	DEAD HORSE
21 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FA #5
2 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BERNAL
14 July 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SANDS
29 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MARTINEZ
27 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	SLASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Serafina: 3 past producers, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Blake Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1900, 1905
Blake Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Bonanza Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1900, 1905
Bonanza Mine	Copper	Unknown

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
Bernal	0.5 miles	15
Chapelle	1.7 miles	15
Blanchard	1.9 miles	15
Lagunita	4.7 miles	14
Tecolote	4.9 miles	15
Gabaldon	5.6 miles	15
Santa Ana	5.8 miles	15
Los Montoyas	6.3 miles	14

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 Serafina	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19818359	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 910944. 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.