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Tecolote, 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 87701. The Survey maps it on the Tecolote quadrangle. 234 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,296 feet above sea level.

Tecolote within San Miguel County

On record in Tecolote

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Tecolote fell from 298 to 234 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
2010298
2020234-64 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Tecolote between 1993 and 2020, burning about 445 acres in total. 14 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/undetermined19
Natural14
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBLUE RIDGE
6 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Division337
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionINDEPENDENCE
31 July 2000Natural1.0 acresSanta Fe National ForestHIDDEN
28 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBLUE-RIDGE
20 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMCALISTER
2 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBERNAL
18 July 2020Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas District21-40200109X

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tecolote: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bonanza MineCopperPast Producer1900, 1905
Bonanza MineCopperUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel 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
Gabaldon1.2 miles15
Santa Ana1.5 miles15
Cedar Hill2.4 miles15
Sheridan3.1 miles14
Ojita3.2 miles14
La Manga3.5 miles15
Myers3.8 miles14
Ojitos Frios4.4 miles15

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 TecoloteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6140165The 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 911573. 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.