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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.

Pastura within Guadalupe County

Population over time

2 figures

Pastura 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.

YearPeople Change
201023
202017-6 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

11 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined5
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
17 July 2017Natural16 acresLas Vegas DistrictARAGON FIRE
16 July 2000Natural80 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLUCY
5 June 2009Natural200 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPASTURA
9 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPASTURA
26 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLYONS
6 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Vegas District20-40530407X
19 April 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJUNCTION
16 March 2000Railroad operations and maintenance12,800 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMILAGRO

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015HailPastura$3,000Public 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 2023HailPastura-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 2023HailPastura-One inch hail accumulated and covered NM State Highway 219, three miles north-northeast of Pastura in central Guadalupe County.
July 2014HailPastura-NWS employee reported 1.0 inch hail on State Rd. 54 southwest of Pastura.
June 2014HailPastura-State police reported quarter size hail on Highway 219 south of Interstate 40.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPastura-no account filed
July 2007HailPastura-no account filed
June 2006HailPastura-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindPastura-no account filed
April 1997HailPastura-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guadalupe 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
San Ignacio9.0 miles6
Pintada9.6 miles6
Arabella10.2 miles6
Sombrio (historical)12.3 miles6
Leoncito12.8 miles6
Vegas Junction13.6 miles6
Agua Negra (historical)14.8 miles7
Tony17.1 miles6

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 PasturaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7143099The 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.