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.
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
San Jose Halllisted 2015
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- House, Galisteofederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Lucero House, Galisteofederal building survey, 6 photographs
Population over time
3 figuresGalisteo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 265 | |
| 2010 | 253 | -12 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 253 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Lamy quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Galisteo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 August 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TRESTLE |
| 4 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | GALISTEO |
| 2 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BADBOY |
| 12 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | L-D |
| 7 June 2016 | Natural | 10 acres | Bernalillo District | CERRO PELON |
| 5 June 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 20-61700617X |
| 30 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SANCRISTOBAL |
| 3 June 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Bernalillo District | GALISTEO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2017 | Flash Flood | Galisteo | - | 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 2015 | Flood | Galisteo | - | 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 2013 | Flood | Galisteo | - | 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 2013 | Flash Flood | Galisteo | - | 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 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Galisteo | - | Galisteo residents observed a brief funnel cloud. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Marias | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Kennedy | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Chapatalito (historical) | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Spiess | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Lamy | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Eldorado at Santa Fe | 9.0 miles | 18 | |
| Cerrillos | 9.8 miles | 17 | |
| Los Cerrilos | 9.8 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 Galisteo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q188221 | 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 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.




