Eldorado at Santa Fe, New Mexico
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87508. The Survey maps it on the Seton Village quadrangle. 6,005 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,677 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresEldorado at Santa Fe grew from 5,799 to 6,005 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5,799 | |
| 2010 | 6,130 | +331 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 6,005 | -125 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 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
- 1952 USGS Seton Village quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Seton Village quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
76 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Eldorado at Santa Fe between 1994 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | WS FIRE |
| 25 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | 285 FIRE |
| 19 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SF SOUTHERN |
| 29 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 28 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LOS CABAUOS |
| 9 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ALTEZA |
| 7 July 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BONANZA |
| 5 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 21-60130032X |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Eldorado at Santa Fe: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Old Placers | Gold | Past Producer | 1828 | |
| San Lazarus | Gold | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Dorado | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| El Dorado at Santa Fe | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Lamy | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Sunlit Hills | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Spiess | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Seton Village | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Cañada de los Alamos | 6.0 miles | 19 | |
| La Loma | 6.4 miles | 18 |
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 Eldorado at Santa Fe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2399343 | 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 1867384. 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.






