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Peña Blanca, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santo Domingo-San Felipe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87041. The Survey maps it on the Santo Domingo Pueblo quadrangle. 624 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,236 feet above sea level.

Peña Blanca within Sandoval County

Population over time

3 figures

Peña Blanca fell from 661 to 624 between 2000 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
2000661
2010709+48 (+7%)
2020624-85 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Peña Blanca between 1992 and 2019, burning about 469 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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 burning92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
19 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencySAN DO
19 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencyPINYON
1 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMARTIN
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyBELONGING
31 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyPENA
31 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencySILE
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyVIC
2 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyGALISTEO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Peña Blanca: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pena Blanca PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Pit Number 60-9-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit Number 66-17-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit Number 77-1-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Two Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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
Sile1.9 miles19
Cochiti Pueblo2.6 miles19
Cochiti2.7 miles19
Santo Domingo Pueblo4.1 miles19
Domingo4.2 miles19
Cochiti Lake5.3 miles21
San Felipe Pueblo11.1 miles19
Bland14.5 miles21

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 Peña BlancaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3323874The 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 928768. 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.