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Rowe, New Mexico

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Villanueva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87562. The Survey maps it on the Rowe quadrangle. 304 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,821 feet above sea level.

Rowe within San Miguel County

Population over time

2 figures

Rowe fell from 415 to 304 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
2010415
2020304-111 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Rowe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 213 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1

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
3 September 2015Natural1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestMESA
8 August 1994Naturalunder an acrePecos National Historical ParkSTRIKETWO
5 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionORTIZ
31 July 2006Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestPADRE SPRINGS
30 July 1993Naturalunder an acrePecos National Historical ParkLONE PINE
29 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROWE
27 July 2000Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestTRIGOS
21 July 2003Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLOBO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rowe: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
KennedyIronPast Producer
Kennedy MineIronPast Producer1900
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rowe in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025HailRowe-A CoCoRaHS observer near Rowe observed a significant amount of penny to nickel size hail with a hail accumulation depth of over 2 inches. Some minor flooding was observed with a glacier like mass of ice and debris. The hail ended up destroying the observer's orchard, corn, and tomato crops.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRowe-The mesonet station at I-25 at Rowe measured a 58 mph wind gust from thunderstorms.
June 2010HailRowe-no account filed
June 2005HailRowe-no account filed
May 1999HailRowe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Miguel 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
Pajarita2.1 miles14
Gise4.6 miles14
East Pecos5.7 miles16
Pecos5.7 miles16
South San Ysidro5.9 miles14
Lower Colonias6.0 miles15
North San Ysidro6.6 miles14
Upper Colonias7.6 miles15

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 RoweAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7371868The 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 910460. 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.