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South Valley, New Mexico

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Albuquerque census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87105. The Survey maps it on the Albuquerque West quadrangle. 38,338 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,925 feet above sea level.

South Valley within Bernalillo County

Population over time

2 figures

South Valley fell from 40,976 to 38,338 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
201040,976
202038,338-2,638 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of South Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 510 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
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
3 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPADILLA
21 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBRAV0
5 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRIVERSIDE
3 August 2017Naturalunder an acreValle de Oro National Wildlife RefugeLAGUNITAS FIRE
20 August 2011Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionROCKY RIDGE
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
9 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSOUTH COORS
8 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyMONTESSA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bernalillo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of South Valley: 23 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Kinney Brick PlantClayProducer
Ben's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Efren&Sons PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Pit #67-39-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 60-23-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 60-61-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mc Elroy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Riverside Constr.Co.PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Saavedra PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Bernalillo 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
Kinney0.9 miles23
Mountainview1.3 miles10
Pajarito1.9 miles10
Barr2.3 miles10
Los Padillas3.0 miles10
Armijo3.0 miles23
Arenal3.3 miles23
San Jose3.7 miles23

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 South ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q611587The 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 1867390. 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.