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Casa Colorada, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Belen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87002. The Survey maps it on the Casa Colorada quadrangle. 279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,793 feet above sea level.

Casa Colorada within Valencia County

Population over time

3 figures

Casa Colorada grew from 56 to 279 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
200056
2010272+216 (+386%)
2020279+7 (+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.

Fires near this place

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Casa Colorada between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,571 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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 burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSERAFIN
7 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBernalillo District20-60380159X
5 August 1992Naturalunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeJUG TANK
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo District21-60710236X
17 August 2020Naturalunder an acreBernalillo District21-60630212X
14 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBernalillo DistrictBEEHIVE FIRE
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo DistrictPUEBLITOS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valencia 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 Casa Colorada: 4 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 56-97-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit 56-98-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit 57-104-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Tome PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Madrone1.6 miles10
Bosque2.3 miles10
Jarales2.8 miles10
Pueblitos3.7 miles10
Bodega4.2 miles10
Bacaville5.0 miles10
Los Trujillos5.1 miles10
Rio Communities5.3 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 Casa ColoradaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2035957The 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 923711. 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.