Chimayo, New Mexico
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Chimayo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87522. It stands on Arroyo de los Alamos. The Survey maps it on the Chimayo quadrangle. 3,077 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,073 feet above sea level.
On record in Chimayo
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records
- El Santuario del Senor Esquipula, Chimayofederal building survey, 33 photographs
- Plaza del Cerro, State Routes 76 & 4 vicinity, Chimayofederal building survey, 2 photographs
- Village of Chimayo, State Highway 76, Chimayofederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
2 figuresChimayo fell from 3,177 to 3,077 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 | 3,177 | |
| 2020 | 3,077 | -100 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS Chimayo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Chimayo quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
99 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Chimayo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,281 acres in total. 17 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 | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | RESUMEDERO |
| 3 September 1992 | Natural | 4.5 acres | Bandelier National Monument | CHURCH |
| 18 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Bernalillo District | RIO ARRIBA |
| 6 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | M50 |
| 31 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | JOE |
| 31 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | THINNING |
| 26 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | TANK |
| 25 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | BORDO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Chimayo: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chimayo Pit | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Hubbard Prospect | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Marion | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Rogers | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chimayo in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chimayo | $2,500 | Several porch coverings were torn off and trees damaged in Chimayo. |
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 Pachecos | 0.8 miles | 12 | |
| Cordova | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| El Llano | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Santo Niño | 6.2 miles | 15 | |
| Fairview | 6.2 miles | 15 | |
| San Pedro | 6.4 miles | 20 | |
| Riverside | 6.4 miles | 20 | |
| Ranchitos | 6.4 miles | 15 |
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 Chimayo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3055512 | 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 928711. 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.




