Costilla, New Mexico
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Questa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87524. The Survey maps it on the Costilla quadrangle. 177 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,812 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCostilla fell from 205 to 177 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 | 205 | |
| 2020 | 177 | -28 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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 Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Costilla quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Wheeler Peak quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
2 photographs, 1939 to 1940Taken 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.
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1939. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
16 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Costilla between 2006 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | COSTILLA |
| 17 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | COSTILLA |
| 5 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Cimarron District | 20-20040030X |
| 20 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Cimarron District | JAROSA |
| 12 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.7 acres | Cimarron District | UPPER PLAZA |
| 16 June 2006 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 25 May 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cimarron District | TOP OF WORLD |
| 1 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Cimarron District | DITCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Costilla: 5 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedros Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amalia | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Ventero | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Sunshine | 10.8 miles | 9 | |
| Sunshine Valley | 11.5 miles | 9 | |
| El Rito | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Buena Vista | 13.8 miles | 9 | |
| Cerro | 15.9 miles | 9 | |
| Midnight (historical) | 17.4 miles | 10 |
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 Costilla | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5790125 | 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 898749. 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.



