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Alcalde, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the South Rio Arriba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87511. It stands on Arroyo de los Borregos. The Survey maps it on the San Juan Pueblo quadrangle. 310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,712 feet above sea level.

Alcalde within Rio Arriba County

On record in Alcalde

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 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

Population over time

3 figures

Alcalde fell from 377 to 310 between 2000 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
2000377
2010285-92 (-24%)
2020310+25 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Church, Alcalde, Rio Arriba County, NM
Church, Alcalde, Rio Arriba County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Merrill House (Door), Alcalde, Rio Arriba County, NM
Merrill House (Door), Alcalde, Rio Arriba County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Alcalde between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,148 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 52 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
Debris and open burning133
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Arson/incendiarism52
Natural14
Fireworks13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPHILIP
19 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyDEBRIS
7 August 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyFENCE
26 August 1995Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTANK
15 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyDUMP
14 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyPILE
10 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencySTONE QUARRY
10 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyNOEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Alcalde: 5 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Materials Pit No. 55-70-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Materials Pit No. 59-55-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Materials Pit No. 59-56-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Materials Pit No. 64-17-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Materials Pit No. 68-1-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alcalde in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2000LightningAlcalde1 hurtAn 18-year old man suffered burns from a lightning strike.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindAlcalde$50,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAlcalde$5,000A roof was blown off a mobile home.
August 2016HailAlcalde-Nickel size hail in Alcalde.

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
La Villita1.0 miles15
Guique1.1 miles15
Los Luceros1.5 miles15
Pueblito1.6 miles15
Estaca1.6 miles15
Chamita2.6 miles15
San Juan Pueblo2.6 miles15
El Duende3.7 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 AlcaldeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2349468The 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 928680. 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.