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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.

Pinos Altos within Grant County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Pinos 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.

YearPeople Change
2010198
2020225+27 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

What the histories say of this town

1,355 words

1 chapter about Pinos Altos from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Report As to Grant CountyReport As to Grant County (1881)1,355 words

Photographs

8 of 13 photographs shown, 1940

Taken 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.

Eugene Davis, gold prospector, making a pot of coffee in his shack on his diggings at Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Eugene Davis, gold prospector, making a pot of coffee in his shack on his diggings at Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Eugene Davis, gold prospector, making a pot of coffee in his shack on his diggings. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Eugene Davis, gold prospector, making a pot of coffee in his shack on his diggings. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
View of Eugene Davis and his creek bed working in gold placer mining. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
View of Eugene Davis and his creek bed working in gold placer mining. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Head frame at old gold mine at Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Head frame at old gold mine at Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Abandoned gold mining equipment at Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Abandoned gold mining equipment at Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Eugene Davis, gold prospector, operating a papago (dry washer) at his diggings. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Eugene Davis, gold prospector, operating a papago (dry washer) at his diggings. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Eugene Davis, gold prospector, reading over location notice form which must be filed along with mining claim. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Eugene Davis, gold prospector, reading over location notice form which must be filed along with mining claim. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Eugene Davis panning gold. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Eugene Davis panning gold. Pinos Altos, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Grant County

Fires near this place

197 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural88
Recreation and ceremony48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning6
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 2016Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestMILL
24 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
24 September 1993Natural2.0 acresGila National Forestnot named
23 September 1994Natural2,000 acresGila National ForestGLASS
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila National ForestCHERRY
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila National ForestBEAR CREEK 3
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila National ForestLILLY
19 September 2011Natural1.5 acresGila National ForestLITTLE CHERRY 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alaska MineGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Arizona MineZinc, Copper, Lead, Gold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Atlantic MineZinc, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Atlas No. 2Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Calumet MineZinc, Silver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer1891, 1952
Cleveland MineZinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1895, 1949
Cleveland MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Deep Down MineSilver, Gold, Copper, ZincPast Producer
Deep Down-Atlantic MineGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer1860, 1865
Eighty Mountain AreaIron, Beryllium, TungstenOccurrenceHematite, Scheelite

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Heavy RainPinos Altos-A CoCoRaHS observer received 4.30 inches of rain.
July 2013Flash FloodPinos 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 1999Thunderstorm WindPinos Altos-A mobile home had half of the roof torn off and was pushed off the foundation by strong thunderstorm winds.
June 1997HailPinos Altos-Weather Spotter reports hail up to one inch covering the ground.
October 2015HailPinos Altos-no account filed
October 2014HailPinos Altos-no account filed
August 1997Flash FloodPinos Altos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Little Walnut Village3.4 miles14
Arenas Valley5.2 miles13
Redstone5.4 miles14
Masons Mill (historical)5.6 miles14
Fort Bayard6.0 miles13
Santa Clara6.9 miles13
Central7.0 miles13
Silver City7.2 miles14

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 AltosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7196410The 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.