Rio Lucio, New Mexico
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Picuris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87553. It stands on Rio Pueblo. The Survey maps it on the Penasco quadrangle. 303 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,251 feet above sea level.
On record in Rio Lucio
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Picuris Pueblolisted 1974 · 1.0 miles away
Population over time
3 figuresRio Lucio fell from 379 to 303 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 379 | |
| 2010 | 389 | +10 (+3%) |
| 2020 | 303 | -86 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Raton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Penasco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Taos quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Penasco quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
77 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Rio Lucio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 396 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 37 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | OJITO |
| 7 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Cimarron District | UPPER LLANO |
| 28 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Northern Pueblos Agency | GARCIA |
| 24 August 2010 | Natural | 270 acres | Carson National Forest | OJITO |
| 2 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Northern Pueblos Agency | TBIRD |
| 19 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Northern Pueblos Agency | CIRCLEASPE |
| 19 August 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Carson National Forest | not named |
| 18 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Northern Pueblos Agency | BIGPINE2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Rio Lucio: 12 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Calcium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champion Mine | Copper, Silver, Gold, Antimony | Past Producer | 1879, 1959 | |
| Champion Mine | Silver, Copper, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Harding Pegmatite | Beryllium, Lithium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Calcium | Past Producer | 1919, 1958 | |
| Harding Pegmatite | Tin, Tantalum, Lithium, Beryllium | Past Producer | 1900, 1920 | |
| Harding Pegmatite Ext. | Beryllium, Tantalum | Occurrence | ||
| M.I.C.A. Mine | Mica | Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Owen-Roybal Group | Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum | Past Producer | 1957 | |
| Owens-Roybal Group | Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium) | Past Producer | ||
| Picuris District | Copper, Lithium, Beryllium, Tantalum, Silver, Tungsten, Gold, Bismuth, Calcium, Kyanite, Niobium (Columbium) | Past Producer | LODE (VEIN) | |
| Theodore Glass Property | Beryllium, Mica | Prospect |
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.
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 Lucio | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2783987 | 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 910245. 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.




