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Cochiti Lake, New Mexico

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santo Domingo-San Felipe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87083. It lies near White Rock Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cochiti Dam quadrangle. 438 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,584 feet above sea level.

Cochiti Lake within Sandoval County

Population over time

2 figures

Cochiti Lake fell from 569 to 438 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
2010569
2020438-131 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Cochiti Lake between 1992 and 2018, burning about 599 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning29
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestL.A. COUNTY
19 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencyPINYON
1 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMARTIN
7 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyBOAT
31 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencySILE
19 August 2007Natural5.0 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencyMESA
10 August 2000Naturalunder an acreBandelier National MonumentTHURSDAY
7 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyLANDFILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cochiti Lake: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Perlite, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Atkinson Co. QuarryStone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Otto PitPerlitePast Producer
Pumice MinePumicePast Producer
Pit Number 60-9-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Two Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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
Cochiti2.8 miles19
Cochiti Pueblo2.8 miles19
Peña Blanca5.3 miles19
Sile6.1 miles19
Santo Domingo Pueblo9.3 miles19
Domingo9.5 miles19
Frijoles9.7 miles21
Bland10.1 miles21

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 Cochiti LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5775863The 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 916010. 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.