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Rincon, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hatch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87940. It stands on Rincon Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Rincon quadrangle. 273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,068 feet above sea level.

Rincon within Doña Ana County

Population over time

3 figures

Rincon grew from 220 to 273 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
2000220
2010271+51 (+23%)
2020273+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Rincon between 1999 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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 July 2007Natural5.6 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeLA JOLLA
4 June 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeMOON
23 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLas Cruces Field Office37
13 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeRIO GRANDE 154 2
13 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeRIO GRANDE 154 1
29 January 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeLEVY
15 January 2019Arson/incendiarism25 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeRIVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Rincon: 10 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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
MorganManganese, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Rincon WellGeothermalUnknown
Materials Pit 62-16-SStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSandstone
Cook Placer ClaimsManganeseUnknown
Last ChanceManganeseOccurrence
MorganManganeseProspect
Rincon Manganese DepositsManganesePast Producer1918, 1958
Kite PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Materials Pit #10Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rincon in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Flash FloodRincon-The Dona Ana County Emergency Manager and Flood Commission reported significant water flow in the Rincon Arroyo at Interstate 25.
July 2025Flash FloodRincon-The Dona Ana Office of Emergency Management reported flooding in Rincon.
January 2017FloodRincon-New Mexico 154 was closed between Rincon and Hatch due to flooding at two low water crossings. One crossing was located right at mile marker 3 with the other located about 0.7 miles east. The worst of the flooding was around 4 AM when water ran 3 to 4 feet deep.

Every storm recorded in Doña Ana 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
Angostura2.1 miles8
Rodey3.9 miles9
Hatch4.7 miles9
Grama5.1 miles8
Placitas5.5 miles9
Tonuco6.7 miles12
Salem8.2 miles9
Garfield12.1 miles8

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 RinconAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2902637The 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 920673. 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.