Encinal, New Mexico
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Laguna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87038. The Survey maps it on the Laguna quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,368 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEncinal fell from 210 to 207 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 | 210 | |
| 2020 | 207 | -3 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1883 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000
- 1886 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000
- 1899 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Laguna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Grants quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
101 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Encinal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 386 acres in total. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Smoking | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Laguna Agency | LAVA |
| 10 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Bernalillo District | 20-60450242X |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | 20 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CLIFF |
| 7 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Laguna Agency | BEECHER |
| 29 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Laguna Agency | MIDNIGHT |
| 25 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Laguna Agency | WHITESPRG |
| 16 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Laguna Agency | CANYON |
| 15 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Laguna Agency | ENCINAL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Encinal: 7 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Bentonite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bentonite Deposit | Bentonite | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 61-16-S | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Paguate Deposits | Uranium, Vanadium, Selenium, Molybdenum | Past Producer | 1956, 1981 | |
| Unnamed Uranium Deposit | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Woodrow Mine | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Cubero Land Grant Association Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Materials Pit 61-14-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 61-17-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 61-31-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Encinal in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Encinal | $50,000 | Flood damaged roads along low water crossings near Encinal and Bibo. Jersey barriers erected to protect from flood waters were washed away. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cubero | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Paraje | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Budville | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Villa de Cubero | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Paguate | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Casa Blanca | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Harrisburg | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| New York | 5.2 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 Encinal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q367785 | 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 899627. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.









