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.
Population over time
2 figuresRowe 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 415 | |
| 2020 | 304 | -111 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1894 USGS Lamy quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Rowe quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
34 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | MESA |
| 8 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Pecos National Historical Park | STRIKETWO |
| 5 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ORTIZ |
| 31 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | PADRE SPRINGS |
| 30 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Pecos National Historical Park | LONE PINE |
| 29 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ROWE |
| 27 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | TRIGOS |
| 21 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | LOBO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Kennedy Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1900 | |
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Hail | Rowe | - | 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rowe | - | The mesonet station at I-25 at Rowe measured a 58 mph wind gust from thunderstorms. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Rowe | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Rowe | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Rowe | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pajarita | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Gise | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| East Pecos | 5.7 miles | 16 | |
| Pecos | 5.7 miles | 16 | |
| South San Ysidro | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Lower Colonias | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| North San Ysidro | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Upper Colonias | 7.6 miles | 15 |
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 Rowe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7371868 | 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 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.





