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Monterey Park, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Los Lunas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87031. The Survey maps it on the Los Lunas quadrangle. 1,272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,023 feet above sea level.

Monterey Park within Valencia County

Population over time

2 figures

Monterey Park fell from 1,567 to 1,272 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
20101,567
20201,272-295 (-19%)

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

183 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Monterey Park between 1993 and 2020, burning about 534 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionAFS FIRE
16 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMANZANO S
21 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
20 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBernalillo District20-60400190X
7 July 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreBernalillo DistrictSTINGING WIND
6 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLLANO
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo District21-60110025X
5 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBONITA VISTA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Monterey Park: 6 unknowns, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Tome' WellGeothermalUnknown
El Cerro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
John PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Pit 56-10-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 57-133-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 72-8-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 73-1-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Nino's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Orona Pit & CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Screening PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Valencia 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
Mission Park1.1 miles10
Las Maravillas2.1 miles10
Rio del Oro3.1 miles10
Pasitos del Cielo3.6 miles10
Valencia4.2 miles10
El Cerro4.3 miles10
Tome4.8 miles10
Comanche Springs5.1 miles11

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 Monterey ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2886076The 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 2413649. 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.