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.
Population over time
2 figuresCedro 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 430 | |
| 2020 | 416 | -14 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1892 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Sedillo quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1990 USGS Sedillo quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Sedillo quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
122 since 1993Regional 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 ceremony | 61 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | 462 |
| 22 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | CEDRO WEST |
| 8 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | YUCCA |
| 8 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | OAK FLAT |
| 6 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | BEARSCAT |
| 5 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | not named |
| 4 August 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Cibola National Forest | FLAT |
| 30 August 2004 | Natural | 4.5 acres | Cibola National Forest | KIRTLAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 33 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackbird Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | 1943 | |
| Ideal Basic Industries Cement Plant and Quarry | Cement Rock | Producer | 1959 | |
| Little Apples Co. Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Lowdermilk Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Mary M | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Mary M Mine | Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Shakespeare Mine | Barium-Barite, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Barite, Chalcocite, Copper, Fluorite | |
| Silver Ring-Verdun Claims | Gold, Silver, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Tijeras Mine | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Tijeras Pit | Clay, Stone | Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
4 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Cedro | $5,000 | Barn flooded and damaged by running water on Brannan Road about 1 mile west of New Mexico Highway 217. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Cedro | - | Penny to ping-bong ball size hail from a first round of storms. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Cedro | - | Half dollar size hail several miles south-southeast of Tijeras. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Cedro | - | An observer reported hail up to the size of nickels a couple miles south of Cedro. No damage resulted from the hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Tomas | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Ponderosa Pine | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Canyon Estates | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Primera Agua | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Tijeras | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Yrisarri | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Miera | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Zamora | 5.5 miles | 18 |
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 Cedro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5759971 | 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 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.








