Pastura, New Mexico
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Santa Rosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88435. The Survey maps it on the Pastura quadrangle. 17 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,295 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPastura fell from 23 to 17 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 | 23 | |
| 2020 | 17 | -6 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Pastura quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Pastura between 1996 and 2020, burning about 14,680 acres in total. 3 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2017 | Natural | 16 acres | Las Vegas District | ARAGON FIRE |
| 16 July 2000 | Natural | 80 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LUCY |
| 5 June 2009 | Natural | 200 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PASTURA |
| 9 May 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,000 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PASTURA |
| 26 May 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LYONS |
| 6 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Las Vegas District | 20-40530407X |
| 19 April 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | JUNCTION |
| 16 March 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 12,800 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MILAGRO |
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pastura in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | Hail | Pastura | $3,000 | Public reports indicate baseball size hail fell between Pastura and Vaughn along U.S. Highway 54. EM had back windshield blown out by the hail that was falling from the same storm. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Pastura | - | Three storm reports with hail between 1 to 1.75 inches covered U.S. Highway 54 from a second trailing supercell. Hail fell for around 20 minutes near Pastura in Guadalupe County. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Pastura | - | One inch hail accumulated and covered NM State Highway 219, three miles north-northeast of Pastura in central Guadalupe County. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Pastura | - | NWS employee reported 1.0 inch hail on State Rd. 54 southwest of Pastura. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Pastura | - | State police reported quarter size hail on Highway 219 south of Interstate 40. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pastura | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Pastura | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Pastura | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pastura | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Pastura | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Ignacio | 9.0 miles | 6 | |
| Pintada | 9.6 miles | 6 | |
| Arabella | 10.2 miles | 6 | |
| Sombrio (historical) | 12.3 miles | 6 | |
| Leoncito | 12.8 miles | 6 | |
| Vegas Junction | 13.6 miles | 6 | |
| Agua Negra (historical) | 14.8 miles | 7 | |
| Tony | 17.1 miles | 6 |
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 Pastura | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7143099 | 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 899837. 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.
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.



