Puerto De Luna, New Mexico
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Santa Rosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88435. The Survey maps it on the Puerto De Luna quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,495 feet above sea level.
On record in Puerto De Luna
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
Alexander Grzelachowski House and Storelisted 1993
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- House, State Highway 91, 10 miles South of Santa Rosa, Puerto De Lunafederal building survey, 6 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresPuerto De Luna grew from 141 to 155 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 | 141 | |
| 2020 | 155 | +14 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Sumner quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Puerto De Luna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Puerto De Luna between 1993 and 2018, burning about 3,199 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 June 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 23 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PUERTO |
| 22 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PIZZA |
| 5 April 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LUNA |
| 6 March 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PACHECO |
| 19 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 1 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Las Vegas District | SANCHEZ FIRE |
| 29 December 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TREE |
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Puerto De Luna: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Rosa Gypsum Deposits | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Gypsum | |
| Materials Pit 65-9-S & 69-14-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Materials Pit F-020-3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Puerto De Luna in 17 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 9 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Flood | Puerto De Luna | $1,500,000 | Law enforcement and emergency management reported major flooding along El Rito Creek and at Power Dam. NM 91 was closed between mile markers 0 and 9. The El Rito Creek South Bridge was nearly topped. Large chunks of concrete from Power Dam were destroyed. A railroad bridge over El Rito Creek was compromised and engineers closed rail traffic to assess the bridge. Extensive damage was done to nearby Park Lake Trail. A bridge carrying a water line to Puerto de Luna was extensively damaged. Low lying areas near Brush Dam were flooded in Puerto de Luna. Extensive road damaged has occurred to city and county roads. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Puerto De Luna | $50,000 | Five to 6 feet of water from the Alamogordo Creek drainage over Highway 156. Pavement was stripped. Half a mile of fence line was tore out due to the flooding. A bunkhouse located near the water crossing took on water damage and water filled up the basement. Two water retention ponds were over-topped. Part of the Pacific Railroad tracks were left dangling because the base was washed out from the heavy rains. |
| August 2015 | Flash Flood | Puerto De Luna | $5,000 | Spotter reported between 1 to 2 feet of flash flood waters over the Puerta de Luna Road southeast of Santa Rosa. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Puerto De Luna | - | A trained spotter along U.S. Highway 84 5 miles east of Puerto De Luna observed quarter sized hail from a severe thunderstorm. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Puerto De Luna | - | Quarter size hail was observed from a severe thunderstorm on U.S. Highway 84 east southeast of Puerto de Luna. |
| October 2025 | Hail | Puerto De Luna | - | A CoCoRaHS observer near Puerto de Luna observed nickel size hail. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Puerto De Luna | - | A CoCoRaHS observer reported pea to quarter size hail a few miles east southeast of Puerto De Luna. The storm produced hail accumulation depth of up to 4 inches in some places. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Puerto De Luna | - | A supercell 5 miles south-southeast of Puerto De Luna in central Guadalupe County initially produced ping pong ball size hail, growing to 2 inch size hail 13 minutes later. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Puerto De Luna | - | Report of hail up to two inches or larger between Santa Rosa and Sumner Lake resulted in damage to mobile home. The extent of damage is unknown. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Puerto De Luna | - | Hail up to the size of quarters. |
| May 2017 | Flash Flood | Puerto De Luna | - | Radar estimated 4 to 8 inches of rainfall over a large area of the Alamogordo Creek drainage. The creek nearly reached the base of the U.S. Highway 84 bridge near Sumner Lake. Several low water crossings northeast of this area along the creek washed out. |
| July 2014 | Flood | Puerto De Luna | - | Pecos River at Puerto de Luna reached 11.01 feet at 5pm pm on the 29th. This was just barely over flood stage at this point. Farmers and locals in the area said the areal flooding in parts of the area around the Pecos was worse than the previous flooding from September 2013. The county was expected to assess the damage to minor farming structures along the river when the water receeded. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Puerto De Luna | - | Hail drifts covering US 84. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Puerto De Luna | - | The hail damaged a lot of vegetation and piled up three inches deep. |
| August 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Puerto De Luna | - | A thunderstorm with a persistent hook echo on radar produced a brief tornado touchdown near Highway 84. |
| August 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Puerto De Luna | - | A tornado briefly touched down west of Sumner Lake. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Puerto De Luna | - | Sheriff deputies closed the highway as water poured over the roadway in Puerto de Luna southwest of Santa Rosa. Radar estimates of rainfall in the area was near 3 inches. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agua Negra (historical) | 5.0 miles | 7 | |
| Santa Rosa | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Arabella | 8.9 miles | 6 | |
| Borica | 10.9 miles | 6 | |
| Los Tanos | 12.0 miles | 6 | |
| Los Ojitos | 13.2 miles | 7 | |
| Double Mills | 16.9 miles | 13 | |
| Pastura | 17.5 miles | 6 |
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 Puerto De Luna | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6092336 | 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 918304. 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.



