Pinos Altos, New Mexico
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Pinos Altos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88053. It lies near Cross Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Fort Bayard quadrangle. 225 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,011 feet above sea level.
On record in Pinos Altos
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Pinos Altos Historic Districtlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresPinos Altos grew from 198 to 225 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 | 198 | |
| 2020 | 225 | +27 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1909 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Fort Bayard quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Fort Bayard quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Fort Bayard quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000
- 1999 USGS Fort Bayard quadrangle1:24000
What the histories say of this town
1,355 words1 chapter about Pinos Altos from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Report As to Grant County | Report As to Grant County (1881) | 1,355 words |
Photographs
8 of 13 photographs shown, 1940Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Every photograph of Grant County
Fires near this place
197 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Pinos Altos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,485 acres in total. 88 started naturally. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 88 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Gila National Forest | MILL |
| 24 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Gila National Forest | not named |
| 24 September 1993 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Gila National Forest | not named |
| 23 September 1994 | Natural | 2,000 acres | Gila National Forest | GLASS |
| 21 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gila National Forest | CHERRY |
| 2 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gila National Forest | BEAR CREEK 3 |
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Gila National Forest | LILLY |
| 19 September 2011 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Gila National Forest | LITTLE CHERRY 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 53 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Pinos Altos: 47 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Mine | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Arizona Mine | Zinc, Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Atlantic Mine | Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Atlas No. 2 | Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Calumet Mine | Zinc, Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | 1891, 1952 | |
| Cleveland Mine | Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | 1895, 1949 | |
| Cleveland Mine | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Deep Down Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Deep Down-Atlantic Mine | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | 1860, 1865 | |
| Eighty Mountain Area | Iron, Beryllium, Tungsten | Occurrence | Hematite, Scheelite |
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinos Altos in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | Pinos Altos | - | A CoCoRaHS observer received 4.30 inches of rain. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Pinos Altos | - | Several reports came in from spotters of a foot and a half to two and a half feet of water were covering roads between Silver City and Little Walnut Village. Over an inch of rain fell in less than 45 minutes. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pinos Altos | - | A mobile home had half of the roof torn off and was pushed off the foundation by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Pinos Altos | - | Weather Spotter reports hail up to one inch covering the ground. |
| October 2015 | Hail | Pinos Altos | - | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Hail | Pinos Altos | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Flash Flood | Pinos Altos | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Walnut Village | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Arenas Valley | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Redstone | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Masons Mill (historical) | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Fort Bayard | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Santa Clara | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Central | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Silver City | 7.2 miles | 14 |
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 Pinos Altos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7196410 | 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 920663. 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.
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.








