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.
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.
San Antonio de Padua Churchlisted 1978 · 0.9 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresEast 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 757 | |
| 2020 | 660 | -97 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1889 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Pecos quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Pecos quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
99 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 52 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1999 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | COW |
| 18 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | LISBOA |
| 8 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | OJITO |
| 8 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | CREEK 1 |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | 16 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | POSADA |
| 8 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Pecos National Historical Park | STRIKETWO |
| 7 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | OJITO |
| 5 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HATCHERY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pecos | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Upper Colonias | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Lower La Posada | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Lower Colonias | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Upper La Posada | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Rowe | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Pajarita | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| El Macho | 7.1 miles | 16 |
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 Pecos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5816722 | 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 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.






