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.
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 figuresTecolote 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 298 | |
| 2020 | 234 | -64 (-21%) |
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 Tecolote quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Tecolote quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
47 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 19 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BLUE RIDGE |
| 6 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | 337 |
| 4 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | INDEPENDENCE |
| 31 July 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | HIDDEN |
| 28 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BLUE-RIDGE |
| 20 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MCALISTER |
| 2 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BERNAL |
| 18 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Las Vegas District | 21-40200109X |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonanza Mine | Copper | Past Producer | 1900, 1905 | |
| Bonanza Mine | Copper | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gabaldon | 1.2 miles | 15 | |
| Santa Ana | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Cedar Hill | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Sheridan | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Ojita | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| La Manga | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Myers | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Ojitos Frios | 4.4 miles | 15 |
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 Tecolote | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6140165 | 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 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.








