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Quemado, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Quemado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87829. It stands on Rito Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quemado quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,877 feet above sea level.

Quemado within Catron County

Population over time

2 figures

Quemado fell from 228 to 163 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
2010228
2020163-65 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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, 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.

Clown rider with his trick mule at rodeo. Quemado, New Mexico
Clown rider with his trick mule at rodeo. Quemado, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Quemado between 2003 and 2013, burning under an acre in total. 3 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
Natural3

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
1 September 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionAMANDA
24 July 2013Naturalunder an acreSocorro Field OfficeTRACE
22 July 2003Naturalunder an acreSocorro Field OfficeCOAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catron 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 Quemado: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lopez PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Materials Pit 72-17-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Catron County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quemado in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 2009LightningQuemado1 killed, $1,000Harry Beggerly, 61, died near Quemado Lake from a lightning strike on the afternoon of August 30, while seeking shelter from the rain under a 30 foot tall tree.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindQuemado$75,000Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed two out-buildings, one large wooden barn and one steel metal shop in Quemado, NM. The steel building ended up landing on top of the neighbors residence and caused significant damage to the structure. There were no reports of injuries.
July 2008Flash FloodQuemado$15,000State road 601 was closed due to flooding from 2 to 5 miles northwest of U.S. 60.

Every storm recorded in Catron 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
Omega6.6 miles10
Mangas15.9 miles10
Salt Lake16.4 miles10
Pie Town19.4 miles11
Tres Lagunas21.4 miles10
Red Hill21.8 miles11
Greens Gap25.4 miles11
Lehew25.6 miles10

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 QuemadoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7271216The 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 923654. 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.