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East Pecos, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Pecos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87552. It lies near Alamitos Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Pecos quadrangle. 660 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,936 feet above sea level.

East Pecos within San Miguel County

On record in East Pecos

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

East Pecos fell from 757 to 660 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
2010757
2020660-97 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of East Pecos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,138 acres in total. 52 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
Natural52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
3 September 1999Natural4.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestCOW
18 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLISBOA
8 August 2016Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestOJITO
8 August 2016Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestCREEK 1
8 August 2003Natural16 acresSanta Fe National ForestPOSADA
8 August 1994Naturalunder an acrePecos National Historical ParkSTRIKETWO
7 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestOJITO
5 August 2012Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHATCHERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel 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
Pecos0.6 miles16
Upper Colonias4.2 miles15
Lower La Posada4.5 miles16
Lower Colonias4.8 miles15
Upper La Posada5.3 miles16
Rowe5.7 miles14
Pajarita7.1 miles14
El Macho7.1 miles16

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 East PecosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5816722The 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 905983. 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.