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Peñasco, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Picuris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87553. It stands on Rio Chiquito. The Survey maps it on the Penasco quadrangle. 474 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,644 feet above sea level.

Peñasco within Taos County

Population over time

2 figures

Peñasco fell from 589 to 474 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
2010589
2020474-115 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Peñasco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 423 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 6 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
Natural46
Recreation and ceremony27
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarson National ForestRIO CHIQUITO
9 August 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCarson National ForestAMOLE
9 August 1995Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestOJITO
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLIANO
8 August 2000Natural6.0 acresCarson National ForestMICA
7 August 2016Naturalunder an acreCimarron DistrictUPPER LLANO
4 August 2005Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestLLANO
4 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Peñasco: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, 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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M.I.C.A. MineMicaProducerMetamorphic
Taos MillMicaUnknown
TojoMicaProducer
Tojo MineMicaProducer1954
U. S. Hill MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Rodarte1.4 miles11
Vadito1.7 miles11
Llano2.0 miles11
Llano Largo2.5 miles11
Ojito2.5 miles11
Picuris Pueblo2.5 miles11
Chamisal2.7 miles11
Rio Lucio2.7 miles11

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 PeñascoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2605951The 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 909544. 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.