North Hurley, New Mexico
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bayard-Santa Rita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88043. The Survey maps it on the Hurley West quadrangle. 242 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,699 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNorth Hurley fell from 300 to 242 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 | 300 | |
| 2020 | 242 | -58 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1909 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Hurley West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Hurley West quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
64 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of North Hurley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,743 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gila National Forest | not named |
| 7 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | KOA |
| 3 July 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | VET |
| 22 July 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CRUM |
| 2 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LINE |
| 19 July 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | YUCCA |
| 18 July 2012 | Natural | 5.3 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SEEP |
| 16 July 2020 | Natural | 20 acres | Socorro District | 21-30080100X |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 59 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of North Hurley: 46 past producers, 6 prospects, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Manganese, Gold, Zinc, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Hur Mine | Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold | Past Producer | 1950 | |
| Bullfrog Mill | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Bullfrog Mine | Lead, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum | Past Producer | 1905, 1961 | |
| Bullfrog Mine | Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Chino Concentrator | Molybdenum, Copper, Silver, Gold | Plant | ||
| Clinoptilolite Occurrence | Zeolites | Occurrence | Clinoptilolite | |
| Groundhog Mine | Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Vanadium, Molybdenum | Past Producer | 1869, 1980 | |
| Groundhog Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | 1900, 1915 | |
| Hurley Lime Quarry | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Ivanhoe Mine | Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | 1904, 1907 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurley | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Bayard | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Newton (historical) | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Central | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Hanover Junction | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Vanadium | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Santa Clara | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Cobre | 4.1 miles | 17 |
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 North Hurley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6045200 | 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 900248. 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.






