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Ponderosa Pine, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Bernalillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87059. The Survey maps it on the Escabosa quadrangle. 1,092 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,440 feet above sea level.

Ponderosa Pine within Bernalillo County

Population over time

2 figures

Ponderosa Pine fell from 1,195 to 1,092 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
20101,195
20201,092-103 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

78 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Ponderosa Pine between 1993 and 2020, burning about 337 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 1 was 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
Recreation and ceremony29
Natural26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCAROLINO
24 September 2005Naturalunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyGUADALUPE
8 August 2009Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestYUCCA
8 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCibola National ForestOAK FLAT
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestBEARSCAT
5 August 1994Naturalunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named
4 August 1995Natural1.0 acresCibola National ForestFLAT
30 August 2004Natural4.5 acresCibola National ForestKIRTLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bernalillo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Ponderosa Pine: 5 producers, 4 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Little Apples Co. MineCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Surface Pit #72-6-S and CrusherLimestone, GeneralProducer
Unknown Name Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Uranium ClaimUraniumOccurrence
Blackbird No. 2 & 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lowdermilk PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit #73-16-SStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Wildacres PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hattie Clay PitsClayUnknown
Hattie MineClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bernalillo 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
Yrisarri1.9 miles12
Miera1.9 miles12
Cedro3.5 miles18
Juan Tomas3.7 miles18
Escabosa4.0 miles12
Manzano Springs4.7 miles13
Augustine7.4 miles13
Chilili7.7 miles13

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 Ponderosa PineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6082418The 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 909790. 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.