Tajique, New Mexico
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Estancia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87016. It lies near CaƱon de Tajique. The Survey maps it on the Tajique quadrangle. 106 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,703 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresTajique fell from 148 to 106 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 148 | |
| 2010 | 130 | -18 (-12%) |
| 2020 | 106 | -24 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1917 USGS Estancia quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tajique quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Belen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Tajique quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Tajique quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
73 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Tajique between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,230 acres in total. 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | TORREON |
| 3 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | TERRERO |
| 6 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.5 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | RAY |
| 6 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | not named |
| 5 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | MIGA |
| 23 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | LAS PALAS |
| 21 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | YELLOW |
| 2 August 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.2 acres | Cibola National Forest | OJO SPRINGS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tajique: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drice I Garland | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Estancia I Crawford | Geothermal | Unknown |
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tajique in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Tajique | $15,000 | Car washed off Riley Rd. when an arroyo overflowed between Routes 55 and 542. Vehicle dangled over the edge of arroyo and almost fell into the arroyo. Driver escaped safely. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Tajique | $5,000 | Three buildings had water flow into them including the dining hall, the tabernacle and the gymnasium at the Inlow Baptist youth camp. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Tajique | - | Heavy rain in the Tajique area caused flash flooding along New Mexico State Road 55, rendering it impassable as crews worked to clear water and debris off the roadway. No damages were known. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Tajique | - | Thunderstorm moving over Tajique produced penny size hail. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Tajique | - | Quarter size hail accumulated six inches deep along state highway 337 northeast of Tajique. One vehicle slid off the road into a ditch. |
| May 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Tajique | - | A funnel cloud was spotted southeast of state roads 337 and 55. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Tajique | - | Three to four feet of water flowing over highway 337 near Tajique. Many arroyos flowing out of banks, culverts at maximum capacity, and large areas of standing water from near Tajique north toward Chilili. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Tajique | - | Manager at the Inlow Baptist Youth Camp reported that they measured 4.2 inches of rain. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Tajique | - | State road 55 was closed due to flooding between mile markers 95 and 97. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Tajique | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Tajique | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torreon | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Candelaria Place | 6.5 miles | 12 | |
| Manzano | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Chato | 8.9 miles | 12 | |
| El Gato | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Los Chavez | 10.0 miles | 11 | |
| Punta de Agua | 10.5 miles | 11 | |
| La Cienega | 11.9 miles | 11 |
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 Tajique | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3301841 | 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 928822. 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.
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.







