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Blanco, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bloomfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87412. It lies near CaƱon Largo. The Survey maps it on the Blanco quadrangle. 491 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,568 feet above sea level.

Blanco within San Juan County

On record in Blanco

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Blanco grew from 388 to 491 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
2010388
2020491+103 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Simon Canyon Pueblito, Approximately 0.6 mile north of Simon Canyon confluence with San Juan River, Blanco, San Juan County, NM
Simon Canyon Pueblito, Approximately 0.6 mile north of Simon Canyon confluence with San Juan River, Blanco, San Juan County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM
Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Blanco, San Juan County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Blanco between 1994 and 2020, burning about 282 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 2 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
Natural23
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeREX MIAMI
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeLARGO CAN
19 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeHARRIS
5 August 2001Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficePEMADA
20 August 2010Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeAUDIENCE
10 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeBOWL
9 July 2001Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeHARRISMESA
8 July 2002Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeCORRAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan 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 Blanco: 6 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, 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 PitGold, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitGold, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitGold, Sand 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, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanco in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2010Flash FloodBlanco$2,000Flash flooding occurred along CR4990. A damage survey found that several arroyos flow from the higher terrain to the south of the road northward into the San Juan River. Though radar indicates that the brunt of the precipitation fell to the south of the road, the road became impassible at several locations as there was evidence that a large swath of mud and water flowed across the road, underneath some nearby raised residences. Since these homes were elevated, they did not receive any damage inside. The storm moved east-northeast near the intersection of CR4990 and CR4550, just south of Blanco, where there was some evidence that high waters flowed there recently.
July 2017Flash FloodBlanco-U.S. Highway 64 completely flooded at mile marker 74. Roadway closed.
October 2012HailBlanco-The Chief of Police in Bloomfield stated he had golf ball size hail at his home SE of Bloomfield in the late morning. Via email correspondence.

Every storm recorded in San Juan 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
Turley3.7 miles16
Alcatraz4.2 miles16
Angustura4.3 miles16
Fivemile Crossing4.4 miles16
Sullivan4.6 miles16
Archuleta7.8 miles15
Bloomfield8.5 miles16
Aztec11.2 miles16

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 BlancoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4957494The 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 898633. 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.