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Cordova, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Chimayo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87523. It stands on Cañada los Angeles. The Survey maps it on the Truchas quadrangle. 380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,955 feet above sea level.

Cordova within Rio Arriba County

On record in Cordova

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Cordova fell from 414 to 380 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
2010414
2020380-34 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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, 1935

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.

Street of Mexican village up in the hills. Cordova, New Mexico
Street of Mexican village up in the hills. Cordova, New Mexico
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1935. Library of Congress

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 Cordova between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,498 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 9 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
Natural26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
12 September 1997Natural1.5 acresSanta Fe National ForestCHICO
3 August 1992Natural10 acresSanta Fe National Forestnot named
29 August 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestTHIRD
28 August 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestRIO
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCARNERO
24 August 1997Natural99 acresSanta Fe National ForestBABY CLINTON
15 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSanta Fe National Forest306
1 August 2000Natural2.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestAMOLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Cordova: 6 prospects, 6 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Uranium, Beryllium, Beryllium, Mica. 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
Materials Pit No. 64-66-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Rocking Chair MineBeryllium, MicaPast Producer1955
Rocking Chair Nos. 1 and 2Beryllium, CalciumProspect
FidelBerylliumPast Producer
Hubbard ProspectUraniumProspect
MarionUraniumUnknown
Santa Rita Beryl ProspectBerylliumProspect
B.A.T. Claims MineMicaPast Producer1955, 1956, 1964
El Fidel Beryl DepositMicaPast Producer1957, 1958
Fidel MineMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Truchas3.6 miles13
Los Pachecos3.9 miles12
Chimayo4.6 miles12
Ojo Sarco8.9 miles13
El Llano9.8 miles15
Santo Niño10.8 miles15
Fairview10.8 miles15
Ranchitos10.9 miles15

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 CordovaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5398084The 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 905338. 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.