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Lamy, 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 lies near Cerro Colorado. The Survey maps it on the Galisteo quadrangle. 210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,483 feet above sea level.

Lamy within Santa Fe County

On record in Lamy

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lamy fell from 218 to 210 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
2010218
2020210-8 (-4%)

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

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Lamy between 1994 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Debris and open burning5
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2

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 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWS FIRE
25 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division285 FIRE
19 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSF SOUTHERN
29 August 2007Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
28 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLOS CABAUOS
24 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTRESTLE
4 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionINDIAN SCOUT
22 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPRINCEPDEPAZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lamy: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Fe County

Storms near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamy in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 9 hail, 3 flash flood. 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 2022Flash FloodLamy$75,000Heavy rain near Lamy caused Old Lamy Trail Road to nearly wash out by the Legal Tender Saloon. Three to four feet of water was also reported along the railroad. Damages are estimated.
July 2022Flash FloodLamy$50,000Heavy rain of 2 to 3 inches near Lamy and Glorieta caused flash flooding in the area. A CoCoRaHS observer reported that this heavy rain flooded the arroyo in their backyard, forming a lake. Video shared by local broadcast media also showed flash flooding through a property at La Posta Way. Damages are estimated.
July 2010Flash FloodLamy$1,000A garage on Avalon Place flooded due to heavy rain. Fortunately, flooding to the the interior of the house was avoided because mechanical pumps were brought in to mitigate the disaster. Just north of this area, 2.32 inches of rain was reported in the Santa Fe Seton Village. This rain fell in just over one hours time.
March 2019HailLamy-Nickel to quarter size hail reported around Eldorado.
August 2012HailLamy-Quarter size hail reported 4.3 miles north northwest of Lamy.
August 2012HailLamy-Quarter size hail reported 3.6 miles north northwest of Lamy.
October 2012HailLamy-Nickel hail 4.2 miles west northwest of Lamy.
October 2012HailLamy-Nickel hail 4.3 miles north northwest of Lamy.
May 2003HailLamy-no account filed
May 2003HailLamy-no account filed
June 2001HailLamy-no account filed
June 2001HailLamy-no account filed

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
Spiess2.1 miles13
Eldorado at Santa Fe4.3 miles18
El Dorado4.6 miles18
El Dorado at Santa Fe4.9 miles18
Los Marias5.8 miles13
Galisteo6.9 miles13
Sunlit Hills7.7 miles18
Kennedy7.8 miles13

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 LamyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1801743The 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 890917. 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.