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Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Arroyo Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87513. It stands on Rio Hondo. The Survey maps it on the Arroyo Hondo quadrangle. 428 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,798 feet above sea level.

Arroyo Hondo within Taos County

On record in Arroyo Hondo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Arroyo Hondo fell from 474 to 428 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
2010474
2020428-46 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Arroyo Hondo between 1992 and 2018, burning about 30 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarson National ForestCARLITOS
18 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyLINEBERRY
6 June 2013Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestCEDAR
23 June 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSILVA
21 June 2016Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestARROYO HONDO
19 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCarson National ForestHONDO SECO
10 June 2003Natural3.0 acresTaos Field OfficeRIOCHAMA
30 May 2013Other causesunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDRUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Arroyo Hondo: 6 past producers. 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
PicurisGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taos County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arroyo Hondo in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flash 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
July 2014Flash FloodArroyo Hondo$2,000Public reported that Earthship Way road was washed out from swiftly moving water.

Every storm recorded in Taos 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
Cañoncito2.0 miles9
San Cristobal4.5 miles9
Valdez4.6 miles10
Kiowa Village4.9 miles10
Lobo (historical)5.1 miles10
Arroyo Seco5.5 miles10
Lama8.3 miles9
El Prado8.8 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 Arroyo HondoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4796244The 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 928684. 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.