BlockBefore

Anton Chico, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dilia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87711. The Survey maps it on the Anton Chico quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,253 feet above sea level.

Anton Chico within Guadalupe County

Population over time

2 figures

Anton Chico fell from 188 to 161 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
2010188
2020161-27 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Anton Chico between 2000 and 2020, burning about 716 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
10 September 2009Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas DistrictBONITA
3 June 2011Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionALAMO SLOUGH
23 June 2006Natural150 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
7 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresLas Vegas DistrictTECOLOTITO
3 May 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHA
26 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresLas Vegas District19-40660449X
26 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined125 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
22 May 2017Natural1.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictDILIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Anton Chico: 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Sowell RanchUraniumOccurrence
Herrera PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit 59-34-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Guadalupe County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anton Chico in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindAnton Chico$70,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindAnton Chico$45,000A mobile home was flipped and subsequently destroyed due to strong winds from a passing severe thunderstorm.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAnton Chico-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph wind gust from a severe thunderstorm near Anton Chico.
May 2017HailAnton Chico-Hail up to the size of ping pong balls in Anton Chico.
July 2014Heavy RainAnton Chico-Reports of 2.5 inches of rain in just 16 minutes from severe storm in the area.
July 2000Flash FloodAnton Chico-Heavy rain caused the Pecos River flow to swell from 25 CFS to over 3500 CFS in less than 30 minutes.
October 2015HailAnton Chico-no account filed
May 2005HailAnton Chico-no account filed
May 2005HailAnton Chico-no account filed
August 2004HailAnton Chico-no account filed
August 1998HailAnton Chico-no account filed
July 1996HailAnton Chico-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guadalupe 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
Llano Viejo1.2 miles13
Upper Anton Chico1.5 miles13
Llano Del Medio1.9 miles13
Upper Dilia3.4 miles13
Dilia4.2 miles13
Dahlia9.0 miles13
Colonias16.8 miles14
Vegas Junction17.4 miles6

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 Anton ChicoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5700558The 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 903205. 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.