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Arroyo Seco, New Mexico

10 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 87514. It lies near Hondo Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Arroyo Seco quadrangle. 1,979 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,582 feet above sea level.

Arroyo Seco within Taos County

Population over time

2 figures

Arroyo Seco grew from 1,785 to 1,979 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
20101,785
20201,979+194 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Arroyo Seco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 5 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
Natural17
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestCUCHILLA DE MEDIO
1 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyBOX CAR
7 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyPUCK
18 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCarson National ForestLATE NIGHT FIRE
13 August 1994Arson/incendiarism250 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyDRYCREEK
11 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyCASSEY
10 August 2004Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestCERRITO COLORADO
9 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestLOWER HONDO ICF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Arroyo Seco: 7 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
Red RiverGoldPast ProducerGold
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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taos County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arroyo Seco in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindArroyo Seco-A mesonet station near Arroyo Seco measured a 74 mph wind gust associated with strong downburst winds from nearby showers.
July 2014HailArroyo Seco-no account filed

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
Valdez1.5 miles10
Cañoncito3.9 miles9
Kiowa Village4.6 miles10
Lobo (historical)5.0 miles10
Arroyo Hondo5.5 miles9
Taos Pueblo5.5 miles11
El Prado5.9 miles11
San Cristobal6.6 miles9

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 SecoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4796254The 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 928687. 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.