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Brazos, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Tierra Amarilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87551. It stands on Brazos Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brazos quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,398 feet above sea level.

Brazos within Rio Arriba County

On record in Brazos

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

On the National Register within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Brazos fell from 44 to 31 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
201044
202031-13 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Brazos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 366 acres in total. 37 started naturally. None 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/undetermined66
Natural37
Debris and open burning30
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTINA
21 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBIRTHDAY
18 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionVALDEZ FIRE
14 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChama District512 POWERLINE
9 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJUNCTION
7 August 2013Naturalunder an acreChama DistrictPLAZA
7 August 2001Naturalunder an acreJicarilla AgencyNEAR MISS
6 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMUNDY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba 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 Brazos: 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Eturriaga Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
B - 01294 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eturriga PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lower BrazosSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit No. 65-64-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Rutheron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brazos in 1 storm report in 2007: 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 2007HailBrazos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Los Ojos1.6 miles12
Ensenada2.2 miles12
Rutheron3.5 miles12
Tierra Amarilla3.6 miles12
La Puente4.1 miles12
Chama10.5 miles14
Willow Creek10.6 miles14
Crowther Cow Camp11.8 miles14

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 BrazosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5733525The 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 923568. 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.