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.
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
- Bouquet Ranch House, Pojoaquefederal building survey, 3 photographs
Population over time
3 figuresPojoaque 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,261 | |
| 2010 | 1,907 | +646 (+51%) |
| 2020 | 2,071 | +164 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1892 USGS Santa Clara quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Espanola quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Espanola quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Los Alamos quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Espanola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 2002 USGS Espanola quadrangle1:24000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
110 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 42 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Northern Pueblos Agency | SAAB |
| 18 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | HIGHWAY |
| 9 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northern Pueblos Agency | 107 FIRE |
| 8 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CAROLS |
| 7 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 21-60150043X |
| 7 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FORK |
| 7 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MIKE |
| 6 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northern Pueblos Agency | ELM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| San Jose No 13 Claim | Uranium | Unknown |
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Flash Flood | Pojoaque | $250,000 | Roads and bridges were damaged during heavy rain near the village of Arroyo Seco. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Pojoaque | $10,000 | Pojoaque 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 2022 | Heavy Rain | Pojoaque | - | Brief heavy rain near El Rancho caused the arroyos to run, and a truck somehow got stuck within the arroyo. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Pojoaque | - | 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Pojoaque | - | 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 2013 | Hail | Pojoaque | - | Dime to nickel size hail reported with storm. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pojoaque | - | A flag pole was bent and nearly destroyed. One and a half inch diameter branches from elm tree were snapped. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Pojoaque | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Pojoaque | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Pojoaque | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacona | 1.0 miles | 20 | |
| Cuyamungue | 1.9 miles | 20 | |
| Jaconita | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Nambe | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| El Rancho | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Nambe Pueblo | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| El Valle de Arroyo Seco | 4.8 miles | 20 | |
| Arroyo Seco | 5.0 miles | 20 |
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 Pojoaque | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1475079 | 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 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.









