Corona, New Mexico
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Corona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88318. The Survey maps it on the Corona North quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,690 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresCorona fell from 165 to 129 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 165 | |
| 2010 | 172 | +7 (+4%) |
| 2020 | 129 | -43 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Corona quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Corona North quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Corona North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Corona between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,578 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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 | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CAMAL |
| 22 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | BAGLEY |
| 13 July 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Capitan District | MAYEUX |
| 11 July 2011 | Natural | 54 acres | Cibola National Forest | CORONA MESA |
| 4 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TORRANCE |
| 21 June 2010 | Natural | 113 acres | Cibola National Forest | CORONA |
| 2 June 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CORONA |
| 29 May 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | WOODSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corona in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 2 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Heavy Rain | Corona | - | A thunderstorm produced heavy rain and copious small hail less than 1/2 inch in diameter which piled up 6 to 12 inches in Corona. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Corona | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Corona | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Wildfire | Corona | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Corona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q686763 | 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 905356. 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.
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.




