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Abiquiu, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Rio Chama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87510. It stands on Abiquiu Creek. The Survey maps it on the Abiquiu quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,066 feet above sea level.

Abiquiu within Rio Arriba County

On record in Abiquiu

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Abiquiu fell from 231 to 181 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010231
2020181-50 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Abiquiu between 1992 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
15 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChama DistrictPADILLA
30 May 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestRED ROCKS #6 ACF
23 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
22 May 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
20 May 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCHAMA
1 May 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJACK
19 April 1992Smokingunder an acreCarson National Forestnot named
18 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreChama District189

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Abiquiu: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Las Minas Jimmie ProspectCopper, SilverPast Producer1917
Lily BelleCopperProspect
Ra03-001Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abiquiu in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014Flash FloodAbiquiu$50,000Twenty minutes of intense rainfall followed by 4 hours of moderate rainfall caused wash out of County Road 155. A culvert beneath the road could not hold all the water and breached the roadway.
June 2015Flash FloodAbiquiu$10,000County road 155 washed away and culverts destroyed.
July 2014Flash FloodAbiquiu$5,000Observer reported the most severe storm at this location in 15 years. A total of 1.28 inches of rain fell in 45 minutes and the main road on their property was ripped apart and culverts destroyed. Additionally, their garden was shredded by hail.
July 1998Flash FloodAbiquiu$5,000Flash flooding along Arroyo Del Yeso filled roads with mud and clogged the bridge to Ghost Ranch with heavy debris.
July 2012Flash FloodAbiquiu$2,500County Road 162 near the intersection of U.S. Highway 84, close to Abiquiu, was partially washed away. The culvert was reportedly too small to carry the volume of water generated by the heavy rain and topped the roadway.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindAbiquiu-A dry thunderstorm produced a brief high wind gust up to 59 mph near Abiquiu.

Every storm recorded in Rio Arriba 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
El Curuco0.2 miles14
La Careda0.4 miles14
Buena Vista1.1 miles14
Barranca1.5 miles14
Tierra Azul3.7 miles14
Plaza Blanca3.9 miles13
Frijoles Spring4.2 miles14
Cañones6.5 miles15

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 AbiquiuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q321422The 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 928674. 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.