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El Duende, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the South Rio Arriba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87537. It stands on Arroyo de la Presa. The Survey maps it on the San Juan Pueblo quadrangle. 573 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,695 feet above sea level.

El Duende within Rio Arriba County

Population over time

2 figures

El Duende fell from 707 to 573 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
2010707
2020573-134 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of El Duende between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,161 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 49 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
Debris and open burning125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Arson/incendiarism49
Fireworks14
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPHILIP
19 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyDEBRIS
7 August 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyFENCE
15 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyDUMP
14 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyPILE
10 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencySTONE QUARRY
10 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyNOEL
8 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyCOUNTY 56

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of El Duende: 9 prospects, 7 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Pumice, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Riverside 1 & 4 MineFluorine-Fluorite, QuartzPast Producer
Cupar MinePumicePast Producer
Santa Clara Pumice Pit 1PumiceUnknown
Diatomaceous Earth PitDiatomiteUnknown
J.H. Rhoades Pumice Co. Diatomite MineDiatomitePast Producer1953, 1954
James H RhodeDiatomiteProspect
Rhodes Diatomite PitDiatomitePast Producer
Bartholomew - Sanchez Grant PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Espanola Transit Mix CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit No. 59-55-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Hernandez0.8 miles15
Chamita1.3 miles15
La Chuachia1.7 miles14
Pueblito2.3 miles15
Guique2.6 miles15
Chili2.6 miles14
San Jose2.7 miles15
San Juan Pueblo3.0 miles15

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 El DuendeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5821788The 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 902820. 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.