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.
Population over time
2 figuresAlamo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,085 | |
| 2020 | 1,150 | +65 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Table Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Magdalena quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Table Mountain quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2005Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2009 | Natural | 133 acres | Southern Pueblos Agency | TRES HERMANOS |
| 30 June 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | UFO ALAMO |
| 20 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 6 January 2014 | Smoking | 6.3 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | CHERRY FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rule Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Chalcocite, Covellite, Malachite |
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Alamo | $100,000 | Flash flooding damaged several roadways and culverts around Alamo. Emergency management estimated damages between $60,000 and $100,000. |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Alamo | $50,000 | Emergency 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Alamo | $50,000 | NM 169 closed at the Rio Salado Bridge. Flood waters undermined roadway and bridge. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Alamo | $50,000 | A 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 2022 | Flash Flood | Alamo | $15,000 | Heavy rain near Alamo caused flash flooding along New Mexico State Road 169 and mile marker 29. Damages are estimated. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Alamo | $10,000 | A downpour at Alamo Navajo Reservation washed out some of the repairs to a road damaged by flooding earlier in the month. |
| October 2025 | Hail | Alamo | - | Law enforcement observed quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm on State Highway 169 at mile marker 28. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Alamo | - | Hail up to the size of quarters. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alamo | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Alamo | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Alamo | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Alamo | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Alamo | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Alamo | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Padilla Settlement | 3.2 miles | 7 | |
| Puertecito | 6.5 miles | 7 | |
| Riley | 15.2 miles | 9 | |
| Augustine (historical) | 22.8 miles | 6 | |
| Magdalena | 25.3 miles | 10 | |
| Kelly | 28.4 miles | 10 | |
| Monica (historical) | 32.0 miles | 9 | |
| Alamillo | 33.5 miles | 9 |
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 Alamo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3291137 | 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 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.





