BlockFence Lake, New Mexico
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fence Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87315. The Survey maps it on the Fence Lake quadrangle. 17 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,070 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFence Lake fell from 42 to 17 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 | 42 | |
| 2020 | 17 | -25 (-60%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Fence Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Fence Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fence Lake between 1994 and 2003, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FENCE |
| 12 June 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | QUINTANA |
| 18 April 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Gila National Forest | not named |
Storms near this place
4 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fence Lake in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Fence Lake | $10,000 | A trained spotter in Fence Lake reported that County Road 35D had been washed out due to heavy rain in the area. Damages are estimated. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Fence Lake | - | Two inches of rain was reported with afternoon storms with an additional inch during the evening and overnight hours. Non-paved roads in the area were all undercut and washed out with large boulders blocking portions of the roads. |
| August 2013 | Heavy Rain | Fence Lake | - | Two inches of rain was reported during the afternoon with an additional one inch of rain during the night. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Fence Lake | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atarque | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Tingle | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Techado | 16.1 miles | 11 | |
| Ojo Caliente | 23.8 miles | 10 | |
| Pinehill | 27.7 miles | 11 | |
| El Morro | 30.2 miles | 17 | |
| Sand Corner | 35.8 miles | 17 | |
| Pueblito | 36.4 miles | 17 |
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 Fence Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5442988 | 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 898775. 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.
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.