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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.

Angel Fire within Colfax County

Population over time

2 figures

Angel 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,216
20201,192-24 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

38 since 1993

Regional 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
Natural18
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestOK CORRAL
4 September 2020Natural2.5 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyMULE RIDGE
4 August 2012Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMORENO
10 August 2003Natural1.0 acresCarson National ForestBULL FIRE
7 July 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National Forestnot named
6 July 1996Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestAPACHE
5 July 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestOK CORRAL ACF
5 July 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestLA JARA ACF # 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colfax County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cashier MineGoldPast Producer1895, 1950
Edison MineGoldPast Producer1895, 1950
Keystone TunnelGoldPast Producer1895
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Colfax County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998HailAngel 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 1995HailAngel Fire-Storms over the county produced widespread hail which reached depths of two inches deep at Lake Maloya northeast of Raton.

Every storm recorded in Colfax 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
Agua Fria2.7 miles11
Black Lake6.7 miles11
Lakeview Pines8.0 miles11
Black Lake Resorts8.5 miles14
Perryville (historical)10.3 miles13
Idlewild10.8 miles11
Eagle Nest11.2 miles11
Val Verde Ski Area11.3 miles11

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 FireAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q518315The 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.