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San Cristobal, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Arroyo Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87564. It lies in San Cristobal Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Arroyo Hondo quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,434 feet above sea level.

San Cristobal within Taos County

On record in San Cristobal

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

San Cristobal fell from 273 to 206 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
2010273
2020206-67 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of San Cristobal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,873 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 2 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
Natural21
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
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
25 September 2012Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestGORGE
22 September 1992Natural1.0 acresCarson National Forestnot named
11 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarson National ForestGARRAPATA
9 August 2004Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestRED FIRE
21 August 2009Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestSNAG
17 August 1992Natural1.0 acresCarson National Forestnot named
10 August 2004Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestCERRITO COLORADO
10 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestLOBO FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos 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 San Cristobal: 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Copper, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
GarrapataMicaOccurrence
Portorico ProspectCopper, CalciumProspect
Iowa GroupGoldProspect
PicurisGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Lobo (historical)2.2 miles10
Kiowa Village2.5 miles10
Cañoncito3.6 miles9
Lama3.8 miles9
Arroyo Hondo4.5 miles9
Valdez5.2 miles10
Arroyo Seco6.6 miles10
Questa7.8 miles9

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 San CristobalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6118582The 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 910610. 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.