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Galisteo, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Santa Fe South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87540. It stands on San Cristobal Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Galisteo quadrangle. 253 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,056 feet above sea level.

Galisteo within Santa Fe County

On record in Galisteo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Galisteo fell from 265 to 253 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.

YearPeople Change
2000265
2010253-12 (-5%)
20202530 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Galisteo between 1994 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
24 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTRESTLE
4 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGALISTEO
2 July 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBADBOY
12 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionL-D
7 June 2016Natural10 acresBernalillo DistrictCERRO PELON
5 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBernalillo District20-61700617X
30 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSANCRISTOBAL
3 June 2018Naturalunder an acreBernalillo DistrictGALISTEO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galisteo in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2017Flash FloodGalisteo-Large rocks and boulders washed over county road 42 near Galisteo. Road closed. Galisteo Creek below Galisteo Dam crested at 10.84 feet, the second highest crest on record since 1971.
August 2015FloodGalisteo-The river gage along Galisteo Creek below Galisteo rose to above minor flood stage at 1 am on the 11th due to rains late on the 10th. It peaked above moderate flood stage around by 330am before dropping below moderate flood stage around 515am, and completely below minor flood stage at 730am.
September 2013FloodGalisteo-The Galisteo Creek below Galisteo Dam measured its highest crest on record dating back to 1971. The gage was above action stage between 9pm on the 15th and 3pm on the 16th with a record peak crest of 2,850 cfs. Low lying areas along the creek were flooded. NM 22 and Pueblo Route 85 were closed due to flooded arroyo over roadways.
July 2013Flash FloodGalisteo-A trained spotter reported that heavy rains had washed out roads in his neighborhood. His neighbor called to relay that 3 inches of rain fell in an hour causing major flooding on roads. He later reported that the culvert into an arroyo could not handle the volume of water and washed out Deer Tank Rd. Deer Tank Rd. was impassable for much of the evening and next morning. Water on roads of 3ft deep and 50-60ft wide were reported (all dirt roads). Radar showed an isolated thunderstorm over the area that stayed in the general vicinity for over an hour. Highest reflectivity was 66dBz. Storm total precipitation estimates had numerous values greater than 3.5.
June 1997Funnel CloudGalisteo-Galisteo residents observed a brief funnel cloud.

Every storm recorded in Santa Fe 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
Los Marias1.3 miles13
Kennedy2.2 miles13
Chapatalito (historical)3.9 miles13
Spiess4.9 miles13
Lamy6.9 miles13
Eldorado at Santa Fe9.0 miles18
Cerrillos9.8 miles17
Los Cerrilos9.8 miles17

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 GalisteoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q188221The 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 928734. 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.