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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.

Encinal within Cibola County

Population over time

2 figures

Encinal 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.

YearPeople Change
2010210
2020207-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

101 since 1992

Regional 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 burning28
Smoking21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural15
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2005Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyLAVA
10 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresBernalillo District20-60450242X
8 August 2003Natural20 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCLIFF
7 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna AgencyBEECHER
29 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLaguna AgencyMIDNIGHT
25 August 2001Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyWHITESPRG
16 August 2003Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyCANYON
15 August 1994Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyENCINAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bentonite DepositBentoniteUnknown
Materials Pit 61-16-SStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Paguate DepositsUranium, Vanadium, Selenium, MolybdenumPast Producer1956, 1981
Unnamed Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown
Woodrow MineUraniumPast Producer
Cubero Land Grant Association PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Materials Pit 61-14-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 61-17-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 61-31-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Cibola County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2015Flash FloodEncinal$50,000Flood damaged roads along low water crossings near Encinal and Bibo. Jersey barriers erected to protect from flood waters were washed away.

Every storm recorded in Cibola 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
Cubero3.6 miles18
Paraje4.3 miles18
Budville4.6 miles18
Villa de Cubero4.7 miles18
Paguate4.8 miles19
Casa Blanca5.0 miles18
Harrisburg5.2 miles18
New York5.2 miles18

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 EncinalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q367785The 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.