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Pojoaque, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87506. It stands on Arroyo Destierro. The Survey maps it on the Espanola quadrangle. 2,071 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,853 feet above sea level.

Pojoaque within Santa Fe County

On record in Pojoaque

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Pojoaque grew from 1,261 to 2,071 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
20001,261
20101,907+646 (+51%)
20202,071+164 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

Bouquet Ranch House, Pojoaque, Santa Fe County, NM
Bouquet Ranch House, Pojoaque, Santa Fe County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Pojoaque between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Debris and open burning28
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencySAAB
18 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHIGHWAY
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Pueblos Agency107 FIRE
8 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCAROLS
7 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreBernalillo District21-60150043X
7 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFORK
7 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIKE
6 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyELM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pojoaque: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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 PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
San Jose No 13 ClaimUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Fe County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pojoaque in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 4 hail, 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
August 1997Flash FloodPojoaque$250,000Roads and bridges were damaged during heavy rain near the village of Arroyo Seco.
June 2016Flash FloodPojoaque$10,000Pojoaque Valley Arroyo flowing rapidly out of it's banks into nearby yards. Swift water rescues took place in the area. No significant property damage sustained.
August 2022Heavy RainPojoaque-Brief heavy rain near El Rancho caused the arroyos to run, and a truck somehow got stuck within the arroyo.
July 2022Flash FloodPojoaque-Video shared by local broadcast media shows raging water in a rural part of Pojoaque. Time is estimated based on radar data. No damage reported.
July 2021Flash FloodPojoaque-Law enforcement reported that water was flowing over County Road 84 and Reservation Road 101 around Pojoaque which forced the closure of the roadways. Water was also reported to be flowing across New Mexico State Road 503 in Nambe, but it was not closed. No damages are known.
July 2013HailPojoaque-Dime to nickel size hail reported with storm.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPojoaque-A flag pole was bent and nearly destroyed. One and a half inch diameter branches from elm tree were snapped.
June 2007HailPojoaque-no account filed
July 2005HailPojoaque-no account filed
May 2003HailPojoaque-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Fe 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
Jacona1.0 miles20
Cuyamungue1.9 miles20
Jaconita2.0 miles20
Nambe2.2 miles16
El Rancho3.0 miles20
Nambe Pueblo3.1 miles16
El Valle de Arroyo Seco4.8 miles20
Arroyo Seco5.0 miles20

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 PojoaqueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1475079The 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 928773. 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.