Mosquero, New Mexico
4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1973. It stands in the North Harding census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87733. The Survey maps it on the Mosquero quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,591 feet above sea level.
On record in Mosquero
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
- Harding County Courthouselisted 1987
Population over time
3 figuresMosquero fell from 120 to 98 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 120 | |
| 2010 | 93 | -27 (-22%) |
| 2020 | 98 | +5 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 4 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.
- 1954 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Mosquero quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Mosquero between 2000 and 2014, burning about 10,651 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2000 | Natural | 850 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BELL |
| 25 July 2011 | Natural | 700 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HAMMER |
| 30 June 2014 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FARM CAMP |
| 16 June 2006 | Natural | 9,000 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HARDING PLEX |
| 22 March 2009 | Natural | 100 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DAVID HILL |
Storms near this place
33 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mosquero in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 25 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Hail | Mosquero | $25,000 | Large hail and strong winds produced heavy damage to a residence eight miles east-southeast of Solano. Golf ball size hail and 75 mph were reported. Windows were busted out of. A power pole was broken off at the base. A 12 inch diameter tree limb was snapped off the tree. The large hail piled up three to four inches deep. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Mosquero | $5,000 | The public reported golfball-size hail 6 miles east of Mosquero at 1718 MST. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Mosquero | - | Flash Flooding made Trigg Road impassable near the confluence of Conejo and Vallentine Creeks with a concrete culvert becoming inundated and damaged. Location is approximate. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mosquero | - | Trained spotter reported 3 inch tree limbs snapped from tree. No damage was reported. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Mosquero | - | Tennis ball size hail reported east-northeast of Mosquero, NM. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Mosquero | - | Golf ball size hail fell with a cell that tracked over Mosquero, NM. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Mosquero | - | The Harding County emergency manager reported quarter size hail near Mosquero. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Mosquero | - | Nickel size hail was reported in Mosquero. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Mosquero | - | The COOP observer near Mosquero reported 3.34 inches of rainfall from storms overnight. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Mosquero | - | Hail up to the size of quarters near Mosquero. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Mosquero | - | NM-102 flooded and impassable between mile markers 3 and 4 at Tequesquite Creek. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mosquero | - | Power pole snapped off at base and large tree limbs snapped near Mosquero. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Mosquero | - | Hail was mostly pea size with a few quarter size stones. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Mosquero | - | Ground was covered by hail. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Mosquero | - | Quarter size hail was reported 2 miles south of Mitchell Ranch headquarters. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Mosquero | - | Quarter size hail reported 26 miles south southeast of Mosquero. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Mosquero | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Mosquero | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1860092 | 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 892254. 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.
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.


