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.
Population over time
2 figuresCochiti 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 569 | |
| 2020 | 438 | -131 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 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 Santa Clara quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Cochiti Dam quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Santo Domingo Pueblo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Los Alamos quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 2002 USGS Cochiti Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
65 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 29 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | L.A. COUNTY |
| 19 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Southern Pueblos Agency | PINYON |
| 1 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MARTIN |
| 7 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Southern Pueblos Agency | BOAT |
| 31 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Southern Pueblos Agency | SILE |
| 19 August 2007 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Southern Pueblos Agency | MESA |
| 10 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Bandelier National Monument | THURSDAY |
| 7 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Southern Pueblos Agency | LANDFILL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atkinson Co. Quarry | Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Otto Pit | Perlite | Past Producer | ||
| Pumice Mine | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Pit Number 60-9-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Two Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cochiti | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Cochiti Pueblo | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Peña Blanca | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Sile | 6.1 miles | 19 | |
| Santo Domingo Pueblo | 9.3 miles | 19 | |
| Domingo | 9.5 miles | 19 | |
| Frijoles | 9.7 miles | 21 | |
| Bland | 10.1 miles | 21 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5775863 | 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 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.








