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Duran, New Mexico

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88318. The Survey maps it on the Duran quadrangle. 44 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,276 feet above sea level.

Duran within Torrance County

On record in Duran

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Duran grew from 35 to 44 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
201035
202044+9 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Duran between 1996 and 1998, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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/undetermined3

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
22 March 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMYSTERY
14 March 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHINDI
11 December 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHEDGES

Every fire recorded in Torrance County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Duran: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
GarnerIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Torrance County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duran in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021HailDuran$50,000A COOP observer reported ping pong size hail from a slow-moving thunderstorm near Duran. The observer also reported several vehicles were damaged due to broken windshields and rearview mirrors. Damages are estimated for the unknown amount of vehicles damaged.
June 2019HailDuran-Hail up to the size of pennies covering NM-3 near Duran.
May 2003HailDuran-Small hail collected to a depth of 4-6 inches on Highway 54 northeast of Corona.
August 1996HailDuran-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Torrance 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
Carnero10.8 miles6
Torrance11.1 miles7
Encino13.1 miles6
Varney14.3 miles7
Negra15.5 miles6
Pedernal17.5 miles6
Cedarvale17.5 miles7
Dummoor19.8 miles6

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 DuranAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5316171The 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 898762. 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.