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Arenas Valley, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Santa Clara census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88022. It lies near Snake Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fort Bayard quadrangle. 1,291 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,138 feet above sea level.

Arenas Valley within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Arenas Valley fell from 1,522 to 1,291 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
20101,522
20201,291-231 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Arenas Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 782 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking8
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
5 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCACTUS
3 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCHERRY
21 August 2003Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestBAYARD
16 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestFORT
11 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBOBS
7 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionKOA
6 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila National ForestSIREN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Arenas Valley: 54 past producers, 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Manganese, Gold, Lead, Zinc. 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
Bullfrog MillZinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Bullfrog MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold, MolybdenumPast Producer1905, 1961
Bullfrog MineZinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Clinoptilolite OccurrenceZeolitesOccurrenceClinoptilolite
Combination-Hobo MinesZinc, Lead, Copper, SilverPast Producer1952
Copper Flat Magnetite MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerReplacement
Copper Flat MineZinc, Gold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer1900, 1947
Copper Glance MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast Producer1905
Fort Bayard DepositGemstoneProducer1906
Groundhog MineCopper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast Producer1869, 1980

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Fort Bayard1.8 miles13
Central2.0 miles13
Santa Clara2.1 miles13
Bayard3.6 miles13
Vanadium3.7 miles17
Hanover Junction3.8 miles17
Cobre3.9 miles17
Ivanhoe (historical)4.7 miles17

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 Arenas ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5703500The 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 903269. 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.