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Las Nutrias, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Socorro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87062. The Survey maps it on the Abeytas quadrangle. 119 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,767 feet above sea level.

Las Nutrias within Socorro County

Population over time

2 figures

Las Nutrias fell from 149 to 119 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
2010149
2020119-30 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

75 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Las Nutrias between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,426 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning26
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSocorro DistrictLABOR DAY
6 July 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIRANDA
31 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSocorro District21-30110160X
3 July 1995Smokingunder an acreSevilleta National Wildlife RefugeSABINAL
18 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBERNARDO
17 July 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOTTONWOOD
1 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBERNARDO
4 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBERNARDO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Socorro County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Las Nutrias: 2 past producers, 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 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 56-97-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials Pit 56-98-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Socorro County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Las Nutrias in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025Flash FloodLas Nutrias-Overnight flood waters inundated a residence in Las Nutrias along NM 304. Flood waters also closed NM 304 at Las Nutrias Road, washing dirt onto the highway requiring debris removal later that day.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLas Nutrias-A public weather station south of Belen measured 59 mph wind gusts from a dry thunderstorm and an outflow boundary.
September 2012Flash FloodLas Nutrias-Law enforcement from Socorro County reported two deputies were stranded along U.S. Highway 60 due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Socorro 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
Abeytas2.3 miles11
Sabinal2.3 miles11
Veguita2.7 miles10
Bernardo5.2 miles11
San Francisco6.7 miles11
Contreras6.9 miles11
La Joya9.8 miles10
San Geronimo11.2 miles10

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 Las NutriasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5970639The 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 923618. 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.