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.
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.
- Las Acequiaslisted 2008 · 0.5 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresNambe 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,818 | |
| 2020 | 1,907 | +89 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1889 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Cundiyo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Cundiyo quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
96 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Northern Pueblos Agency | SAAB |
| 1 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Las Vegas District | 20-40240216X |
| 18 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HIGHWAY |
| 9 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northern Pueblos Agency | CREEKSIDE |
| 8 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CAROLS |
| 7 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 21-60150043X |
| 7 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FORK |
| 7 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MIKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| San Jose No 13 Claim | Uranium | Unknown |
Storms near this place
4 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Nambe | $500,000 | A 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 2022 | Flash Flood | Nambe | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Nambe | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Nambe | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nambe Pueblo | 1.0 miles | 16 | |
| Cuyamungue | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Pojoaque | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Jacona | 3.2 miles | 20 | |
| Jaconita | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| El Rancho | 5.2 miles | 20 | |
| El Valle de Arroyo Seco | 5.4 miles | 20 | |
| Arroyo Seco | 5.6 miles | 20 |
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 Q5391816 | 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 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.






