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Bosque Farms, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Los Lunas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87068. The Survey maps it on the Los Lunas quadrangle. 4,020 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,865 feet above sea level.

Bosque Farms within Valencia County

Population over time

3 figures

Bosque Farms fell from 4,092 to 4,020 between 2000 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
20004,092
20103,904-188 (-5%)
20204,020+116 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Photographs

8 of 13 photographs shown, 1935 to 1936

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.

Making adobe brick. Bosque Farms, New Mexico
Making adobe brick. Bosque Farms, New Mexico
Rothstein, Arthur, 1936. Library of Congress
Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico
Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1935. Library of Congress
Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico. She herds cows for neighboring families for five cents per day
Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico. She herds cows for neighboring families for five cents per day
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1935. Library of Congress
Temporary housing for the settlers. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico
Temporary housing for the settlers. Bosque Farms project, New Mexico
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1935. Library of Congress
Temporary schoolhouse. Bosque Farms, New Mexico
Temporary schoolhouse. Bosque Farms, New Mexico
Rothstein, Arthur, 1936. Library of Congress
Bosque Farms project. Making adobe brick for school and permanent houses. New Mexico
Bosque Farms project. Making adobe brick for school and permanent houses. New Mexico
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1935. Library of Congress
Sons of resettled farmers. Bosque Farms, New Mexico
Sons of resettled farmers. Bosque Farms, New Mexico
Rothstein, Arthur, 1936. Library of Congress
School formerly used by children who now attend the new school at Bosque Farms. Taos County, New Mexico
School formerly used by children who now attend the new school at Bosque Farms. Taos County, New Mexico
Rothstein, Arthur, 1936. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Valencia County

Fires near this place

645 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 645 fires within 5 miles of Bosque Farms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,129 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 32 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
Debris and open burning444
Missing data/not specified/undetermined80
Arson/incendiarism32
Equipment and vehicle use24
Smoking23
Recreation and ceremony15
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural6
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
25 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencyJOJOLA
14 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyTR-6
14 September 2004Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRIOCOM
12 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyHORSE
1 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHED
1 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCHICAL
4 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyFORTY-7
24 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyHIGHWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Bosque Farms: 6 unknowns, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 68-22-SLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Parea Mesa Pit & CrushingStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
El Cerro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Pit 72-8-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 73-1-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Nino's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Orona Pit & CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Screening PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Valencia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bosque Farms in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindBosque Farms$3,000Thunderstorm winds removed a metal roof from a brick outbuilding.

Every storm recorded in Valencia 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
Peralta1.5 miles10
Chical2.2 miles10
Los Lentes2.6 miles10
Los Lunas3.7 miles10
Valencia3.8 miles10
Paquita3.9 miles10
Mission Park6.3 miles10
Sandia7.4 miles10

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 Bosque FarmsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q894492The 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 932919. 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.