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Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Arroyo Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87525. It stands on Lake Fork. The Survey maps it on the Wheeler Peak quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 9,321 feet above sea level.

Taos Ski Valley within Taos County

Population over time

2 figures

Taos Ski Valley grew from 69 to 77 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
201069
202077+8 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Taos Ski Valley between 2002 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2007Naturalunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencyFALL
25 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCarson National ForestPOWERLINE
3 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestYERBA ICF
20 July 2004Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestGALLINA
7 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestCUCHILLO DEL MEDIO ACF1
5 June 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestGOOSE LAKE ICF
24 June 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCarson National ForestDUMMY ACF
11 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreCarson National ForestCHAIRLIFT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos 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 Taos Ski Valley: 18 prospects, 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Molybdenum, 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
Amizette ProspectsGold, Copper, Lead, ZincOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Sphalerite
Amizette ProspectsLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, IronOccurrence
Berry Ext. ProspectZinc, Lead, CopperProspect
Frazer MineCopper, Gold, Silver, MolybdenumPast Producer1904
Frazer MineMolybdenum, CopperPast Producer
Golden GooseGold, CalciumProspect
Highline ProspectCopper, Silver, LeadPast Producer1956
Jack Pot ProspectCopper, Iron, Lead, ZincProspect
Silver StarLeadPast Producer
Solid Gold GroupCopper, GoldProspect

Every working recorded in Taos 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
Twining0.2 miles10
Moly7.3 miles10
Kiowa Village7.6 miles10
Lobo (historical)7.7 miles10
Valdez8.1 miles10
Red River8.1 miles10
Arroyo Seco8.2 miles10
Lama9.4 miles9

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 Taos Ski ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2739939The 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 899303. 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.