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South Carmen, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87732. It lies near Las Quebraditas Valley. The Survey maps it on the Mora quadrangle.

South Carmen within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

100 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of South Carmen between 1994 and 2020, burning about 345 acres in total. 54 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
Natural54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
7 September 2020Natural1.0 acresLas Vegas District21-40470263X
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWIMP
8 August 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCHARLIE
8 August 2002Natural1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFOX
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGARCIA
28 August 2009Natural4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionALLSUP
27 August 2009Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMARRUJO
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROMO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora 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 South Carmen: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Mica, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Great Western MineMicaPast Producer1949, 1952
Joe Matt & Sam Adams MineLead, Copper, Silver, ZincUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mora Beryl ProspectBerylliumOccurrence
Unnamed MineZincUnknown
Unnamed MineZincUnknown

Every working recorded in Mora County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Carmen in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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
July 1996HailSouth Carmen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mora 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
North Carmen1.0 miles16
Puertocito2.4 miles16
Ledoux2.5 miles16
Abuelo3.8 miles16
Cañon3.8 miles16
Buena Vista4.8 miles15
Santa Gertrudis (historical)4.9 miles16
Monte Aplanado5.3 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122554117The 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 924763. 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.