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Gila, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pinos Altos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88038. It lies near Northrup Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cliff quadrangle. 285 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,557 feet above sea level.

Gila within Grant County

On record in Gila

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Gila fell from 314 to 285 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
2010314
2020285-29 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Gila between 1993 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBEAR CREEK
13 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHIEDS
26 July 2015Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionIRON BRIDGE
11 July 1993Naturalunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeMANGUS
28 June 2000Natural10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSHIRLEY
25 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSocorro DistrictSYCAMORE
12 June 1994Natural40 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeSYCAMORE
31 May 2016Naturalunder an acreSocorro DistrictBOB TAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gila: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials Pit 64-12-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black TowerManganesePast Producer1954
Black Tower ClaimManganesePast ProducerVein
HillsideManganesePast ProducerVein
HillsideManganesePast Producer1952

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gila in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGila$75,000A newly placed trailer was overturned and blown off supports and a large trampoline was removed from property on south side of Gila. Another mobile home near River Road suffered significant roof damage and a tree was uprooted on the property. Numerous flattened yucca stalks were reported. ||An uprooted pine tree was observed on a property along highway 153 between Hooker Loop and Lee Road. Hail up to a half inch in diameter was also observed.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGila-A spotter reported a peak wind gust of 59 mph two miles northeast of Gila.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGila-Spotter measured a wind gust to 74 mph northeast of Gila.
September 2018HailGila-Hail covered the ground.
July 2013HailGila-U.S. Forest Service reported quarter size hail accumulating to 8 inches near the intersection of U.S. 180 and Highway 211.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindGila-Law enforcement reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Cliff1.8 miles10
Riverside2.6 miles10
Buckhorn8.5 miles13
Mangas Springs9.2 miles11
Telegraph (historical)13.1 miles11
Alhambra (historical)17.2 miles12
Black Hawk (historical)18.2 miles12
Little Walnut Village18.4 miles14

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 GilaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1867562The 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 898782. 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.