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Aragon, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Reserve census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87820. It lies near Negro Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Aragon quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Aragon within Catron County

Population over time

2 figures

Aragon fell from 94 to 76 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
201094
202076-18 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Aragon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,955 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 4 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
Natural64
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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
4 September 2019Natural192 acresGila National ForestAPACHE
23 September 2013Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestAPACHE
14 September 2007Natural1,001 acresGila National ForestPATTERSON
6 August 2004Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestBANTA FIRE
5 August 2013Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestRIM ROCK
25 August 1994Naturalunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
22 August 2000Natural2.0 acresGila National ForestOWL
2 August 2018Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestTONGUE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catron County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Aragon: 1 past producer. 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 65-66-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Catron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aragon in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 flood. 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
September 2013FloodAragon$50,000Flooding along Tularosa Creek and nearby arroyos lead to flooding on Tularosa River.

Every storm recorded in Catron 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
Apache Creek5.6 miles13
Cruzville8.4 miles13
Reserve16.4 miles14
Old Horse Springs16.8 miles12
San Francisco Plaza17.7 miles14
New Horse Springs18.8 miles12
Spur Lake19.5 miles14
Lower San Francisco Plaza20.0 miles14

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 AragonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4783718The 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 923552. 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.