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Tererro, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Pecos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87573. It stands on Davis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rosilla Peak quadrangle. It stands 7,720 feet above sea level.

Tererro within San Miguel County

On record in Tererro

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Tererro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,292 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 6 were 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
Natural60
Recreation and ceremony40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
9 September 2002Natural1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestWILLOW
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTRACT
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLINK
4 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
1 September 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestRIDGE
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLINKS
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTRACK
4 August 1992Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named

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 Tererro: 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Bismuth. 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
Eugene R. Long PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Jones MineCopper, Zinc, Gold, Silver, LeadOccurrence1899
Pecos MineZinc, Lead, BismuthOccurrenceReplacement
Pecos MineZinc, Silver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Willow Creek District-New MexicoZinc, Lead, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Jones MineCopperUnknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tererro in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 2 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 2021HailTererro-Estimated penny size hail fell from a strong thunderstorm near Tererro. The hail accumulated to about 4 inches deep, but no impacts were known.
September 1998HailTererro-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
Tres Lagunas1.4 miles16
Holy Ghost1.6 miles17
Grass Mountain Summer Home Area4.1 miles17
El Macho4.7 miles16
Cowles4.9 miles17
Winsor Creek Summer Home5.0 miles17
Geronimo5.8 miles17
Upper La Posada6.4 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.

Wikipedia article on TererroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19818363The 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 911611. 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.