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Sherman, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bayard-Santa Rita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88041. It lies near Gallinas Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Whitehorse Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,545 feet above sea level.

Sherman within Grant County

On record in Sherman

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

5 surveys from 8 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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Sherman between 1993 and 2020, burning about 579 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined14
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2012Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSEPT 6TH
3 August 2011Natural3.0 acresGila National ForestHOT SPRINGS
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOWER ACLAIN
9 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionYOUNG
5 June 2006Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
27 June 2013Other causesunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIMBRES #1
24 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRUNT
2 June 2010Smoking16 acresSocorro DistrictLORENZO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 Sherman: 6 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Perlite, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Zinc. 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
Materials Pit 66-50-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectZinc, Copper, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Box Well Graben Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 1PerliteOccurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 2PerliteOccurrence
Mimbres Fault Perlite Deposit No. 3PerliteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherman in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 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 2022FloodSherman-The Mimbres River was out of it's bank causing some areas of New Mexico Highway 61 to be impassable at several low water crossings.
July 2013Flash FloodSherman-Gallinas Canyon flowing and flooded at De-La-O Road.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
San Juan1.4 miles9
San Lorenzo4.7 miles9
Casas Adobes5.2 miles9
Dwyer8.2 miles9
Big Mill8.2 miles8
Mimbres9.0 miles9
Santa Rita (historical)10.0 miles17
Turnerville11.2 miles17

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 ShermanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19818361The 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 899913. 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.