Sena, New Mexico
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Villanueva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87560. It lies near Gonzales Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Sena quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,876 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSena grew from 129 to 155 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 | 129 | |
| 2020 | 155 | +26 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1890 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Bernal quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:62500
- 1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Sena quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Sena quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Sena between 1994 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Las Vegas District | LA PALOMA |
| 28 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | VILLANUEVA |
| 23 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | GONZALES |
| 21 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | FA #5 |
| 16 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BACA |
| 10 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PUEBLO |
| 25 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | VIC |
| 21 June 2003 | Natural | 50 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SARGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sena in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Hail | Sena | - | Hail up to the size of quarters near Villanueva. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovato | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| La Fragua | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Garanbuio | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Barranco | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Lower Pueblo | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Villanueva | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Upper Pueblo | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| El Cerrito | 4.6 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 Sena | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5406063 | 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 910937. 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.
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.








