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Nambe, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Santa Fe North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87506. It stands on Arroyo de los Guardunos. The Survey maps it on the Cundiyo quadrangle. 1,907 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Nambe within Santa Fe County

On record in Nambe

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Nambe grew from 1,818 to 1,907 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
20101,818
20201,907+89 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Kiva, Nambe Pueblo, Santa Fe County, NM
Kiva, Nambe Pueblo, Santa Fe County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

96 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Nambe between 1994 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning18
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
10 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencySAAB
1 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreLas Vegas District20-40240216X
18 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHIGHWAY
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyCREEKSIDE
8 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCAROLS
7 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreBernalillo District21-60150043X
7 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFORK
7 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Nambe: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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 PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
San Jose No 13 ClaimUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Fe County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nambe in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2014Flash FloodNambe$500,000A clogged culvert led to a surge of flood waters through the Pojoaque Terrace Mobile Estates. Several homes were washed off their foundations. A gas line break during the flood prompted the evacuation off all 60 homes. A total of 23 units were damaged.
July 2022Flash FloodNambe-Video shared by local broadcast media on Twitter showed flash flooding and mud flow along County Road 117S in Nambe. There are no known damages.
August 2008HailNambe-no account filed
August 2004Flash FloodNambe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Fe 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
Nambe Pueblo1.0 miles16
Cuyamungue2.0 miles20
Pojoaque2.2 miles20
Jacona3.2 miles20
Jaconita4.1 miles20
El Rancho5.2 miles20
El Valle de Arroyo Seco5.4 miles20
Arroyo Seco5.6 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q5391816The 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 918262. 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.