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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.

Paraje within Cibola County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Paraje 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.

YearPeople Change
2010777
2020705-72 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

228 since 1992

Regional 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 burning76
Smoking38
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Fireworks18
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencySEMI
29 September 2000Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyOLD LADY
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna AgencyTRUCKER
9 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaguna AgencyINTERSTATE
8 August 2003Smokingunder an acreLaguna AgencyGARAGE
29 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLaguna AgencyMIDNIGHT
29 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencySHINGLE
27 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencyRIFLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bentonite DepositBentoniteUnknown
Materials Pit 61-16-SStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
ParajeUraniumUnknown
Materials Pit 59-2-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 61-31-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 61-35-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 62-30-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Cibola 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
Casa Blanca0.7 miles18
Harrisburg1.5 miles18
Philadelphia2.2 miles18
New York2.7 miles18
Seama2.8 miles18
Budville2.9 miles18
New Laguna3.0 miles18
Cubero3.1 miles18

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 ParajeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2051535The 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.