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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.

Cerrillos within Santa Fe County

Population over time

3 figures

Cerrillos 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.

YearPeople Change
2000229
2010321+92 (+40%)
2020258-63 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2021

Taken 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.

View of U.S. Interstate Highway 25 in the vast valley southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, near the settlement of Los Cerrillos
View of U.S. Interstate Highway 25 in the vast valley southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, near the settlement of Los Cerrillos
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

16 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined6
Natural5
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 August 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCR 45
26 July 1994Natural3.0 acresCarson National Forestnot named
24 July 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCAROL
23 July 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCEDAR MTN
7 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMADRID
3 June 2018Natural3.0 acresBernalillo DistrictMAIN STREET
24 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
24 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGOLDMINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bottom Dollar MineZinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, IronPast Producer1875, 1901, 1944
Cash EntryZinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, GoldOccurrence
Cash Entry MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperOccurrence1880, 1915
Central MineZincPast Producer
Cerrilos MineClayProducerSedimentary
Evelyn MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer1910, 1945
Franklin MineZinc, Lead, CadmiumPast Producer
Grand Central MineLead, Zinc, Gold, SilverPast Producer1879, 1885, 1952
Mina Del TiroLead, Silver, ZincPast Producer1680, 1942
Sun Flower PlacerGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Fe County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007Tornado (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 2007Tornado (EF0)Cerrillos-The tornado touched down briefly and no damage was reported.
June 2002HailCerrillos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Fe County

Newspapers printed here

176 digitised pages

1 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.

NewspaperPublished
The Rustler1891 to 1???

What the paper printed

16,573 words

Front 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.

IssuePaper Length
1891-08-14The Rustler2,811 words
1891-09-11The Rustler2,859 words
1891-10-23The Rustler3,597 words
1891-11-20The Rustler3,473 words
1891-12-25The Rustler3,833 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Los Cerrilos0.1 miles17
Waldo (historical)1.6 miles17
Madrid2.7 miles17
Rosario6.3 miles17
Dolores (historical)6.6 miles17
Bonanza City (historical)7.0 miles17
Ortiz (historical)7.2 miles18
Kennedy7.6 miles13

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 CerrillosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2485170The 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.