Soham, New Mexico
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Pecos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87565. It stands on El Rito. The Survey maps it on the San Jose quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,145 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSoham fell from 210 to 147 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 | 210 | |
| 2020 | 147 | -63 (-30%) |
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 San Jose quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
26 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Soham between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,407 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 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 | 10 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2017 | Natural | 1,034 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | PALMER |
| 4 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | not named |
| 9 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | BEGOSO |
| 19 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LA MADERA |
| 19 July 1997 | Natural | 100 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | PALMER |
| 1 July 2020 | Fireworks | 1.5 acres | Las Vegas District | 21-40030019X |
| 3 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SHERIFF |
| 28 June 2002 | Natural | 45 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | SANDS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Soham: 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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.
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 Soham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6131298 | 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 911190. 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.








