Encino, New Mexico
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mountainair-Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88321. The Survey maps it on the Encino quadrangle. 51 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,119 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresEncino fell from 94 to 51 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 | 94 | |
| 2010 | 82 | -12 (-13%) |
| 2020 | 51 | -31 (-38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Encino quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
8 photographs, 1943Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Encino between 1995 and 2011, burning about 729 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.6 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | WELDER FIRE |
| 9 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 700 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HIGHWAY 60 |
| 14 April 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | NEGRA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Encino: 4 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunlam Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
37 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Encino in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 23 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Hail | Encino | $15,000 | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Encino | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Encino | $2,000 | Large hail killed about 25 lambs west of Encino. |
| August 2020 | Lightning | Encino | $1,500 | A lightning strike killed two cows at the Pedernal COOP ranch. Damage amounts are estimated for the loss of cattle property. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Encino | $1,500 | Water up to one foot deep covered Highway 285/60 between Encino and Vaughn from 530 pm to 600 pm MST. Spotters reported large debris along the roadway, and significant fence line damage. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Encino | $1,000 | A trained spotter reported hail stones up to 3.5 inches in diameter west of Encino. This resulted in a broken car windshield. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encino | $1,000 | COOP Observer reported strong winds causing a large tree limp to snap and land on carport. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Encino | $1,000 | Between 327pm and 415pm MST there were 3 reports of large hail and 2 reports of funnel clouds around Encino. Hail size ranged from 0.75 inch to 1.75 inches. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Encino | - | There were several hail reports in and just south of Encino along State Highway 3 ranging in size from quarters to half-dollars. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encino | - | Eight to ten inch branch snapped off tree in sudden change of wind direction. Accompanied by pea sized hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Encino | - | Quarter size hail between Encino and Vaughn along U.S. Highway 60. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Encino | - | There were reports of dime to quarter size hail just south-southwest of Encino covering the ground. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Encino | - | There was 1.75 inch hail reported near Encino along with two other 1 inch reports. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Encino | - | A trained spotter reported a rope tornado just south of their location in Encino, NM. No damage was reported. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Encino | - | There were several reports of quarter size hail west of Encino. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Encino | - | A COOP observer near Encino reported 1 inch hail from a severe thunderstorm tracking eastward through the area. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Encino | - | A traveler along U.S. 285 captured footage of a tornado on the ground a couple miles east of Encino. The tornado was over open range land and no damage occurred. |
| September 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Encino | - | COOP observer reported a funnel cloud that may have touched down, but was difficult to tell in the distance. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encino | - | A local COOP observer estimated a wind gust to near 60 mph. |
| August 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Encino | - | Video captured from the Vaughn NMDOT web camera showed a passing funnel cloud. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Encino | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| July 2005 | Flash Flood | Encino | - | Highway crews reported water one foot deep running over State Road 3 north of Encino. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Encino | - | Hail to nickel-size covered the ground and broke skylights in several homes. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Encino | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Encino | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Encino | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Encino | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Encino | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Negra | 4.1 miles | 6 | |
| Carnero | 4.4 miles | 6 | |
| Pedernal | 9.7 miles | 6 | |
| Dummoor | 13.0 miles | 6 | |
| Duran | 13.1 miles | 6 | |
| Derramadero | 13.9 miles | 6 | |
| North Lucy | 15.6 miles | 6 | |
| Culebra | 16.4 miles | 6 |
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 Encino | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2545649 | 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 898773. 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.



