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Alamo, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Magdalena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87825. It lies near Jaramillo Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Table Mountain quadrangle. 1,150 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,184 feet above sea level.

Alamo within Socorro County

Population over time

2 figures

Alamo grew from 1,085 to 1,150 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
20101,085
20201,150+65 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Alamo between 2005 and 2018, burning about 140 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 July 2009Natural133 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencyTRES HERMANOS
30 June 2018Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementUFO ALAMO
20 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
6 January 2014Smoking6.3 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCHERRY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Socorro County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Alamo: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Rule ProspectCopperOccurrenceChalcocite, Covellite, Malachite

Every working recorded in Socorro County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alamo in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 flash flood, 6 hail, 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 2020Flash FloodAlamo$100,000Flash flooding damaged several roadways and culverts around Alamo. Emergency management estimated damages between $60,000 and $100,000.
September 2019Flash FloodAlamo$50,000Emergency management reported damaged roads and culverts with closures in the area south of Alamo. Damage amounts are a rough estimate for dirt road and culvert wash outs.
November 2016Flash FloodAlamo$50,000NM 169 closed at the Rio Salado Bridge. Flood waters undermined roadway and bridge.
July 1998Flash FloodAlamo$50,000A major road near the Alamo Navajo Headquarters was washed out by heavy rain and swift runoff. Nearly 100 families on the reservation northwest of Socorro were forced into a 15 mile detour.
July 2022Flash FloodAlamo$15,000Heavy rain near Alamo caused flash flooding along New Mexico State Road 169 and mile marker 29. Damages are estimated.
July 1998Flash FloodAlamo$10,000A downpour at Alamo Navajo Reservation washed out some of the repairs to a road damaged by flooding earlier in the month.
October 2025HailAlamo-Law enforcement observed quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm on State Highway 169 at mile marker 28.
June 2017HailAlamo-Hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAlamo-no account filed
July 2006HailAlamo-no account filed
September 1998HailAlamo-no account filed
September 1998HailAlamo-no account filed
April 1997HailAlamo-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodAlamo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Socorro 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
John Padilla Settlement3.2 miles7
Puertecito6.5 miles7
Riley15.2 miles9
Augustine (historical)22.8 miles6
Magdalena25.3 miles10
Kelly28.4 miles10
Monica (historical)32.0 miles9
Alamillo33.5 miles9

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 AlamoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3291137The 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 1852622. 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.