Angel Fire, New Mexico
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Cimarron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87710. The Survey maps it on the Palo Flechado Pass quadrangle. 1,192 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,406 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAngel Fire fell from 1,216 to 1,192 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 | 1,216 | |
| 2020 | 1,192 | -24 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Palo Flechado Pass quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Palo Flechado Pass quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
38 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Angel Fire between 1993 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 18 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 | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | OK CORRAL |
| 4 September 2020 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Northern Pueblos Agency | MULE RIDGE |
| 4 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MORENO |
| 10 August 2003 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Carson National Forest | BULL FIRE |
| 7 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 6 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | APACHE |
| 5 July 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Carson National Forest | OK CORRAL ACF |
| 5 July 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Carson National Forest | LA JARA ACF # 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Angel Fire: 4 past producers, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cashier Mine | Gold | Past Producer | 1895, 1950 | |
| Edison Mine | Gold | Past Producer | 1895, 1950 | |
| Keystone Tunnel | Gold | Past Producer | 1895 | |
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angel Fire in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1998: 2 hail. 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 1998 | Hail | Angel Fire | - | Small hail with some nickel sized stones covered the ground to 3 inches deep at Palo Flechado Pass (el. 9101ft) west northwest of Angel Fire. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Angel Fire | - | Storms over the county produced widespread hail which reached depths of two inches deep at Lake Maloya northeast of Raton. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agua Fria | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Black Lake | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Lakeview Pines | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Black Lake Resorts | 8.5 miles | 14 | |
| Perryville (historical) | 10.3 miles | 13 | |
| Idlewild | 10.8 miles | 11 | |
| Eagle Nest | 11.2 miles | 11 | |
| Val Verde Ski Area | 11.3 miles | 11 |
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 Angel Fire | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q518315 | 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 901719. 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.




