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.
Population over time
2 figuresMonterey 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,567 | |
| 2020 | 1,272 | -295 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Los Lunas quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Belen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Los Lunas quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
183 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 93 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 57 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | AFS FIRE |
| 16 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.1 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MANZANO S |
| 21 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 20 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 20-60400190X |
| 7 July 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Bernalillo District | STINGING WIND |
| 6 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LLANO |
| 5 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 21-60110025X |
| 5 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BONITA VISTA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tome' Well | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| El Cerro Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| John Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Materials Pit 56-10-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 57-133-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 72-8-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 73-1-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Nino's Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Orona Pit & Crusher | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Screening Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Park | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| Las Maravillas | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Rio del Oro | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Pasitos del Cielo | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Valencia | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| El Cerro | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Tome | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Comanche Springs | 5.1 miles | 11 |
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 Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2886076 | The 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.





