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Rio En Medio, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87506. The Survey maps it on the Tesuque quadrangle. 157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,116 feet above sea level.

Rio En Medio within Santa Fe County

Population over time

3 figures

Rio En Medio grew from 131 to 157 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
2000131
2010143+12 (+9%)
2020157+14 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Rio En Medio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,187 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 7 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
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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
6 September 1992Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencyPINES
26 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
2 September 2009Natural1.4 acresSanta Fe National ForestMEDIO
17 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
10 September 2014Naturalunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyRESERVOIR
1 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreLas Vegas District20-40240216X
1 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBROTHERS
3 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeSCOUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rio En Medio: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Silver, Bismuth. 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
Aspen Ranch Pegmatite DepositMica, Gold, Silver, BismuthOccurrence1956

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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
En Medio0.1 miles19
Chupadero0.7 miles19
Tesuque Pueblo4.1 miles19
Tesuque4.6 miles19
Nambe Pueblo5.4 miles16
Cuyamungue6.2 miles20
Nambe6.3 miles16
Tano Road6.9 miles23

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 Rio En MedioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3242745The 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 1852633. 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.