Cerrillos, New Mexico
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87010. It stands on San Marcos Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Picture Rock quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,758 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresCerrillos grew from 229 to 258 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 | 229 | |
| 2010 | 321 | +92 (+40%) |
| 2020 | 258 | -63 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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
- 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Madrid quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1990 USGS Picture Rock quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 2021Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Cerrillos between 1994 and 2018, burning about 13 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CR 45 |
| 26 July 1994 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 24 July 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CAROL |
| 23 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CEDAR MTN |
| 7 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MADRID |
| 3 June 2018 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Bernalillo District | MAIN STREET |
| 24 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 24 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | GOLDMINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 24 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Cerrillos: 15 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bottom Dollar Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, Iron | Past Producer | 1875, 1901, 1944 | |
| Cash Entry | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Cash Entry Mine | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Occurrence | 1880, 1915 | |
| Central Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Cerrilos Mine | Clay | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Evelyn Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1910, 1945 | |
| Franklin Mine | Zinc, Lead, Cadmium | Past Producer | ||
| Grand Central Mine | Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | 1879, 1885, 1952 | |
| Mina Del Tiro | Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | 1680, 1942 | |
| Sun Flower Placer | Gold | Unknown |
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cerrillos in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2007: 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Cerrillos | - | The NWS observer at Santa Fe Municipal Airport reported seeing the tornado (landspout) for 15 minutes, from 3:27 - 3:42 PM. This was likely in Sandoval county, but the observer likely unable to see tornado after this point due to La Bajada Hill obstructing view. The tornado originated in extreme eastern Sandoval county and dissipated around 3:48 PM, a few minutes after crossing into Santa Fe County. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Cerrillos | - | The tornado touched down briefly and no damage was reported. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Cerrillos | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
176 digitised pages1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 22 issues, 176 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Rustler | 1891 to 1??? |
What the paper printed
16,573 wordsFront pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 5 issues all from 1891, 16,573 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.
These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.
| Issue | Paper | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1891-08-14 | The Rustler | 2,811 words |
| 1891-09-11 | The Rustler | 2,859 words |
| 1891-10-23 | The Rustler | 3,597 words |
| 1891-11-20 | The Rustler | 3,473 words |
| 1891-12-25 | The Rustler | 3,833 words |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Cerrilos | 0.1 miles | 17 | |
| Waldo (historical) | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Madrid | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Rosario | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Dolores (historical) | 6.6 miles | 17 | |
| Bonanza City (historical) | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Ortiz (historical) | 7.2 miles | 18 | |
| Kennedy | 7.6 miles | 13 |
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 Cerrillos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2485170 | 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 915808. 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.







