Paraje, New Mexico
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Laguna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87007. It stands on Paraje Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Laguna quadrangle. 705 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,948 feet above sea level.
On record in Paraje
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Paisano House, Casa Blanca Road Laguna Pueblo, Parajefederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
2 figuresParaje fell from 777 to 705 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 | 777 | |
| 2020 | 705 | -72 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1883 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000
- 1886 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000
- 1899 USGS Mt. Taylor quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Laguna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Grants quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
228 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Paraje between 1992 and 2020, burning about 869 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 76 |
| Smoking | 38 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 32 |
| Fireworks | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Pueblos Agency | SEMI |
| 29 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Laguna Agency | OLD LADY |
| 23 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Laguna Agency | TRUCKER |
| 9 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Laguna Agency | INTERSTATE |
| 8 August 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | Laguna Agency | GARAGE |
| 29 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Laguna Agency | MIDNIGHT |
| 29 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Laguna Agency | SHINGLE |
| 27 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Laguna Agency | RIFLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Paraje: 8 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bentonite Deposit | Bentonite | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 61-16-S | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Paraje | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 59-2-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 61-31-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 61-35-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 62-30-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Blanca | 0.7 miles | 18 | |
| Harrisburg | 1.5 miles | 18 | |
| Philadelphia | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| New York | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Seama | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Budville | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| New Laguna | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Cubero | 3.1 miles | 18 |
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 Paraje | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2051535 | 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 899836. 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.









