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Jemez Springs, New Mexico

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Jemez-Zia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87025. It lies near Ojito Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Jemez Springs quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,198 feet above sea level.

Jemez Springs within Sandoval County

On record in Jemez Springs

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

3 figures

Jemez Springs fell from 375 to 198 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
2000375
2010250-125 (-33%)
2020198-52 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Jemez Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,765 acres in total. 122 started naturally. 3 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
Natural122
Recreation and ceremony29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2000Natural7.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestCANYON
9 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
3 September 1992Natural15 acresSanta Fe National Forestnot named
29 September 1992Natural3.0 acresSanta Fe National Forestnot named
25 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestVIRGIN
19 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestMESA
10 September 1996Natural18 acresSanta Fe National ForestSLEEPER
9 August 2006Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Jemez Springs: 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Spanish Queen MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1940
Strip MinesPumiceUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jemez Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
N. E. Soda Dam ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Pit Number 60-42-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pyramid Pumice MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Soda Dam SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Spanish QueenGold, SilverPast Producer
Tex - N ProspectUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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
Deer Creek Landing4.7 miles18
Gilman5.1 miles18
Porter6.1 miles20
Sierra de los Pinos6.1 miles25
Ponderosa7.6 miles20
La Cueva7.7 miles24
Cañon8.0 miles20
O'Neil Landing8.7 miles20

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 Jemez SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q648216The 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 918208. 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.