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El Rancho, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87506. It stands on Arroyo Manuela. The Survey maps it on the Espanola quadrangle. 1,120 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,669 feet above sea level.

El Rancho within Santa Fe County

Population over time

3 figures

El Rancho grew from 817 to 1,120 between 2000 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
2000817
20101,199+382 (+47%)
20201,120-79 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of El Rancho between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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
7 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyBROKEN AX
14 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyDUMP 2
10 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencySAAB
18 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHIGHWAY
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Pueblos Agency107 FIRE
8 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCAROLS
7 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIKE
6 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyELM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of El Rancho: 5 unknowns. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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
Jaconita1.1 miles20
Jacona2.0 miles20
San Ildefonso Pueblo2.1 miles20
Pajarito2.8 miles19
Pojoaque3.0 miles20
Otowi3.5 miles19
Cuyamungue4.2 miles20
Totavi5.2 miles19

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 RanchoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301852The 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 906078. 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.