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Cañada de los Alamos, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87505. It lies near Cerros Negros. The Survey maps it on the Glorieta quadrangle. 421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,566 feet above sea level.

Cañada de los Alamos within Santa Fe County

Population over time

3 figures

Cañada de los Alamos grew from 358 to 421 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
2000358
2010434+76 (+21%)
2020421-13 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Cañada de los Alamos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 44 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
Natural44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
7 September 1997Natural2.5 acresSanta Fe National ForestALAMOS
28 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCOUGAR RIDGE
27 September 2011Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCORRAL
12 September 2018Natural2.8 acresSanta Fe National ForestHONDO
9 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestARMANDO
7 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPETE
6 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestBARBERIA
3 August 2008Natural3.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestAPACHE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cañada de los Alamos: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Paytiamo DepositCopperOccurrence1942
PaytianoCopperProspect

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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
Sunlit Hills3.3 miles18
Seton Village3.8 miles18
El Dorado at Santa Fe4.0 miles18
La Loma4.1 miles18
El Dorado4.6 miles18
Glorieta4.9 miles19
Eldorado at Santa Fe6.0 miles18
La Cueva6.8 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 Cañada de los AlamosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301834The 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 918094. 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.