Datil, New Mexico
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Quemado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87821. It lies near Crosby Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Datil quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,400 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDatil fell from 54 to 50 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 | 54 | |
| 2020 | 50 | -4 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Datil quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Magdalena quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Datil quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
2 photographs, 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, 1940. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Datil between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,275 acres in total. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BENTLEY |
| 8 August 2000 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Cibola National Forest | HIDDEN |
| 9 July 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | not named |
| 8 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | HOMESTEAD |
| 8 July 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | DEAD HORSE |
| 28 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Socorro Field Office | ANDERSON |
| 12 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | DRAG |
| 9 June 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SWEETEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Datil: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit 57-147-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Datil in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2018: 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1999 | Hail | Datil | $3,000 | Guests from Eagle Ranch reported hail that dented several cars. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Datil | - | Nickel size hail in Datil. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Datil | - | Hail up to the size of pennies a few miles northwest of Datil. |
| May 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Datil | - | Local media shared imagery of a funnel cloud near Datil on Twitter. |
| May 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Datil | - | Funnel cloud spotted with weak thunderstorm 5 to 6 miles southeast of Datil. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gutierrezville | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Greens Gap | 16.2 miles | 11 | |
| Pie Town | 18.7 miles | 11 | |
| Tres Lagunas | 21.1 miles | 10 | |
| New Horse Springs | 23.7 miles | 12 | |
| Lehew | 23.9 miles | 10 | |
| Mangas | 25.2 miles | 10 | |
| Old Horse Springs | 25.4 miles | 12 |
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 Datil | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1172611 | 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 905608. 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.





