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Hernandez, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the South Rio Arriba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87537. It stands on Arroyo de Trujillos. The Survey maps it on the San Juan Pueblo quadrangle. 756 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,689 feet above sea level.

Hernandez within Rio Arriba County

On record in Hernandez

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hernandez fell from 946 to 756 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
2010946
2020756-190 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Hernandez between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,155 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 53 were 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
Debris and open burning129
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Arson/incendiarism53
Fireworks14
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPHILIP
19 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyDEBRIS
7 August 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyFENCE
15 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyDUMP
14 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyPILE
10 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencySTONE QUARRY
10 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyNOEL
8 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyCOUNTY 56

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Hernandez: 9 prospects, 7 past producers, 3 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Pumice, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Riverside 1 & 4 MineFluorine-Fluorite, QuartzPast Producer
Cupar MinePumicePast Producer
Santa Clara Pumice Pit 1PumiceUnknown
Diatomaceous Earth PitDiatomiteUnknown
J.H. Rhoades Pumice Co. Diatomite MineDiatomitePast Producer1953, 1954
James H RhodeDiatomiteProspect
Rhodes Diatomite PitDiatomitePast Producer
Bartholomew - Sanchez Grant PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Espanola Transit Mix CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
LowdermilkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

6 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hernandez in 6 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 4 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 dust devil. 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
August 2016Flash FloodHernandez$2,000,000Two elderly residents rescued from a mobile home that was washed off it's foundation and displaced over 50 feet downstream. Up to 30 homes inundated with water and at least 10 families displaced from flood waters. U.S. Highway 285, highway 74, and county road 57 all closed to remove mud and debris. County Road 57 washed over with mudslides from nearby mesa.
August 2016Flash FloodHernandez$75,000At least three vehicles stalled in flood waters along county road 56A.
June 2019Dust DevilHernandez$10,000Twenty people were injured when a dust devil blew apart a large tent at a summer solstice event at the Guru Ram Das Puri retreat center west of Espanola. Damage amounts are a rough estimate for destruction of the event tent.
May 2017HailHernandez-Hail up to the size of quarters in Hernandez.
August 2016Flash FloodHernandez-Numerous roadways flooded and impassable around Hernandez.
August 2016Flash FloodHernandez-Water over U.S. Highway 84 in Hernandez near highway 74.

Every storm recorded in Rio Arriba 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
El Duende0.8 miles15
Chamita1.3 miles15
San Jose2.0 miles15
Pueblito2.4 miles15
La Chuachia2.4 miles14
San Juan Pueblo2.7 miles15
Guique3.0 miles15
Chili3.3 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 HernandezAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5742161The 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 902263. 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.