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Santa Clara, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Santa Clara census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88026. It lies near Yellowdog Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Fort Bayard quadrangle. 1,637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,978 feet above sea level.

Santa Clara within Grant County

On record in Santa Clara

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

3 figures

Santa Clara fell from 1,944 to 1,637 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
20001,944
20101,686-258 (-13%)
20201,637-49 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Santa Clara between 1992 and 2020, burning about 759 acres in total. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking8
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila National Forestnot named
5 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCACTUS
3 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCHERRY
21 August 2003Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestBAYARD
16 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGila National ForestFORT
7 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionKOA
6 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila National ForestSIREN
6 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTRAILER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Santa Clara: 63 past producers, 5 producers, 4 prospects, 2 plants. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Gold, 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
Bullfrog MillZinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Bullfrog MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold, MolybdenumPast Producer1905, 1961
Bullfrog MineZinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
ChinoCopper, Silver, Molybdenum, GoldPlant1801, 1912
Chino ConcentratorMolybdenum, Copper, Silver, GoldPlant
Chino MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, PGE, LeadProducer1800, 1804
Clinoptilolite OccurrenceZeolitesOccurrenceClinoptilolite
Combination-Hobo MinesZinc, Lead, Copper, SilverPast Producer1952
Copper Flat MineZinc, Gold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer1900, 1947
Empire Zinc MineZinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1970

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Central0.3 miles13
Fort Bayard1.2 miles13
Bayard1.6 miles13
Vanadium1.7 miles17
Hanover Junction1.9 miles17
Cobre2.0 miles17
Arenas Valley2.1 miles13
Ivanhoe (historical)2.8 miles17

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 Santa ClaraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3322256The 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 920575. 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.