Coyote, New Mexico
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Coyote census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87012. It lies near Loma Coyote. The Survey maps it on the Youngsville quadrangle. 110 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,732 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCoyote fell from 128 to 110 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 | 128 | |
| 2020 | 110 | -18 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1909 USGS Gallina quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Youngsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Youngsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 2002 USGS Youngsville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
82 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Coyote between 1993 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | PINABETOSA |
| 7 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | SECA #1 |
| 7 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | SECA #2 |
| 25 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | PELONA |
| 22 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | LARGO |
| 2 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LOST |
| 13 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | ZIA |
| 8 August 2000 | Natural | 15 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | PINABETOSA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Coyote: 5 unknowns, 5 prospects, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Copper, Copper, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pajarito Azul | Copper, Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Sand and Gravel Prospect | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand and Gravel | |
| Coyote Hill Mine | Vanadium, Uranium, Copper | Past Producer | 1954, 1955 | |
| Coyote Prospect | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Red Head #2 Mine | Vanadium, Uranium, Copper | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Lucky Strike Mine | Vanadium, Uranium | Past Producer | 1955, 1957 | |
| Midcontinent #1 Mine | Vanadium, Uranium | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Hillfoot No. 1 | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Jaramillo- Montoya | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Lou | Uranium | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coyote in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Hail | Coyote | - | Local news outlet relayed a report near Coyote of nickel size hail on Twitter. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arroyo del Agua | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Rio Puerco | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Youngsville | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Lower Cañones | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Jarosa | 9.1 miles | 15 | |
| Cañones | 9.5 miles | 15 | |
| Capulin | 11.0 miles | 15 | |
| Gallina | 11.5 miles | 15 |
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 Coyote | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5790456 | 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 928718. 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.
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.







