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Cedro, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Bernalillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87059. It lies near Sabino Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sedillo quadrangle. 416 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,060 feet above sea level.

Cedro within Bernalillo County

Population over time

2 figures

Cedro fell from 430 to 416 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
2010430
2020416-14 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

122 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Cedro between 1993 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony61
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning3
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCibola National Forest462
22 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCibola National ForestCEDRO WEST
8 August 2009Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestYUCCA
8 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCibola National ForestOAK FLAT
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestBEARSCAT
5 August 1994Naturalunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named
4 August 1995Natural1.0 acresCibola National ForestFLAT
30 August 2004Natural4.5 acresCibola National ForestKIRTLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bernalillo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Cedro: 10 producers, 9 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 5 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite, Clay, Uranium. 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
Blackbird MineFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Barium-BaritePast Producer1943
Ideal Basic Industries Cement Plant and QuarryCement RockProducer1959
Little Apples Co. MineCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Lowdermilk PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mary MGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Mary M MineCopper, GoldPast Producer1955
Shakespeare MineBarium-Barite, Copper, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceBarite, Chalcocite, Copper, Fluorite
Silver Ring-Verdun ClaimsGold, Silver, LeadUnknown
Tijeras MineLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Tijeras PitClay, StoneProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bernalillo County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedro in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2013Flash FloodCedro$5,000Barn flooded and damaged by running water on Brannan Road about 1 mile west of New Mexico Highway 217.
May 2025HailCedro-Penny to ping-bong ball size hail from a first round of storms.
June 2019HailCedro-Half dollar size hail several miles south-southeast of Tijeras.
September 2019HailCedro-An observer reported hail up to the size of nickels a couple miles south of Cedro. No damage resulted from the hail.

Every storm recorded in Bernalillo 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
Juan Tomas2.9 miles18
Ponderosa Pine3.5 miles12
Canyon Estates4.4 miles21
Primera Agua4.4 miles21
Tijeras4.4 miles21
Yrisarri5.1 miles12
Miera5.1 miles12
Zamora5.5 miles18

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 CedroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5759971The 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 904883. 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.