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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.

Mosquero within Harding County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Mosquero 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.

YearPeople Change
2000120
201093-27 (-22%)
202098+5 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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

5 since 2000

Regional 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
Natural5

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
7 August 2000Natural850 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBELL
25 July 2011Natural700 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHAMMER
30 June 2014Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFARM CAMP
16 June 2006Natural9,000 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHARDING PLEX
22 March 2009Natural100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDAVID HILL

Every fire recorded in Harding County

Storms near this place

33 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016HailMosquero$25,000Large 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 1993HailMosquero$5,000The public reported golfball-size hail 6 miles east of Mosquero at 1718 MST.
July 2025Flash FloodMosquero-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 2024Thunderstorm WindMosquero-Trained spotter reported 3 inch tree limbs snapped from tree. No damage was reported.
June 2023HailMosquero-Tennis ball size hail reported east-northeast of Mosquero, NM.
June 2023HailMosquero-Golf ball size hail fell with a cell that tracked over Mosquero, NM.
June 2022HailMosquero-The Harding County emergency manager reported quarter size hail near Mosquero.
May 2019HailMosquero-Nickel size hail was reported in Mosquero.
July 2019Heavy RainMosquero-The COOP observer near Mosquero reported 3.34 inches of rainfall from storms overnight.
May 2018HailMosquero-Hail up to the size of quarters near Mosquero.
August 2017Flash FloodMosquero-NM-102 flooded and impassable between mile markers 3 and 4 at Tequesquite Creek.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMosquero-Power pole snapped off at base and large tree limbs snapped near Mosquero.
September 2014HailMosquero-Hail was mostly pea size with a few quarter size stones.
September 2014HailMosquero-Ground was covered by hail.
September 2014HailMosquero-Quarter size hail was reported 2 miles south of Mitchell Ranch headquarters.
May 2012HailMosquero-Quarter size hail reported 26 miles south southeast of Mosquero.
June 2014HailMosquero-no account filed
September 2014HailMosquero-no account filed
July 2013HailMosquero-no account filed
May 2010HailMosquero-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindMosquero-no account filed
September 2006HailMosquero-no account filed
May 2005Tornado (F0)Mosquero-no account filed
May 2005HailMosquero-no account filed
May 2005HailMosquero-no account filed
August 2004HailMosquero-no account filed
October 2002HailMosquero-no account filed
May 2001HailMosquero-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMosquero-no account filed
June 1996HailMosquero-no account filed
June 1995HailMosquero-no account filed
June 1995HailMosquero-no account filed
June 1995HailMosquero-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harding 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
Solano7.7 miles7
Albert11.9 miles4
Sabino14.7 miles4
Roy17.1 miles7
Gallegos17.5 miles4
Bueyeros20.0 miles4
Dehaven20.8 miles7
Armenta Plaza (historical)22.2 miles7

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 MosqueroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1860092The 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.