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.
Population over time
3 figuresCañada 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 358 | |
| 2010 | 434 | +76 (+21%) |
| 2020 | 421 | -13 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Glorieta quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Glorieta quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
102 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1997 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | ALAMOS |
| 28 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | COUGAR RIDGE |
| 27 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | CORRAL |
| 12 September 2018 | Natural | 2.8 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | HONDO |
| 9 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | ARMANDO |
| 7 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PETE |
| 6 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | BARBERIA |
| 3 August 2008 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | APACHE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paytiamo Deposit | Copper | Occurrence | 1942 | |
| Paytiano | Copper | Prospect |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunlit Hills | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Seton Village | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| El Dorado at Santa Fe | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| La Loma | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| El Dorado | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Glorieta | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Eldorado at Santa Fe | 6.0 miles | 18 | |
| La Cueva | 6.8 miles | 16 |
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 Alamos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3301834 | The 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.






