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.
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
Georgia O'Keeffe Home and StudioNational Historic Landmark · listed 1998- Tomas Gonzales Houselisted 1996
- Georgia O'Keeffe Ghost Ranch Houselisted 2020
- Whitaker Dinosaur Quarrylisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresAbiquiu 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 231 | |
| 2020 | 181 | -50 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Abiquiu quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Abiquiu quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Abiquiu quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Abiquiu quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
19 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chama District | PADILLA |
| 30 May 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Carson National Forest | RED ROCKS #6 ACF |
| 23 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 22 May 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 20 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | CHAMA |
| 1 May 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | JACK |
| 19 April 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 18 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chama District | 189 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Las Minas Jimmie Prospect | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1917 | |
| Lily Belle | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Ra03-001 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $50,000 | Twenty 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 2015 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $10,000 | County road 155 washed away and culverts destroyed. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $5,000 | Observer 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 1998 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $5,000 | Flash flooding along Arroyo Del Yeso filled roads with mud and clogged the bridge to Ghost Ranch with heavy debris. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Abiquiu | $2,500 | County 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Abiquiu | - | A dry thunderstorm produced a brief high wind gust up to 59 mph near Abiquiu. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Curuco | 0.2 miles | 14 | |
| La Careda | 0.4 miles | 14 | |
| Buena Vista | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Barranca | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Tierra Azul | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Plaza Blanca | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Frijoles Spring | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Cañones | 6.5 miles | 15 |
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 Abiquiu | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q321422 | 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 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.







