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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.

Costilla within Taos County

Population over time

2 figures

Costilla 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.

YearPeople Change
2010205
2020177-28 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

2 photographs, 1939 to 1940

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.

Adobe house, Costilla, New Mexico
Adobe house, Costilla, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico
Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1939. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

16 since 2006

Regional 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 burning10
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
19 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOSTILLA
17 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOSTILLA
5 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCimarron District20-20040030X
20 July 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresCimarron DistrictJAROSA
12 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use4.7 acresCimarron DistrictUPPER PLAZA
16 June 2006Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
25 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreCimarron DistrictTOP OF WORLD
1 May 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresCimarron DistrictDITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cedros ProspectMicaProspect
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Amalia4.7 miles9
Ventero6.7 miles9
Sunshine10.8 miles9
Sunshine Valley11.5 miles9
El Rito12.3 miles9
Buena Vista13.8 miles9
Cerro15.9 miles9
Midnight (historical)17.4 miles10

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 CostillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5790125The 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.