Tecolotito, New Mexico
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Las Vegas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87711. It stands on Tecolote Creek. The Survey maps it on the Anton Chico quadrangle. 204 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,321 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTecolotito fell from 232 to 204 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 | 232 | |
| 2020 | 204 | -28 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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
- 1963 USGS Anton Chico quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Villanueva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
19 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Tecolotito between 1994 and 2020, burning about 627 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Santa Fe National Forest | LADRON |
| 10 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Las Vegas District | BONITA |
| 7 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | ROMERO |
| 25 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ZUNI |
| 7 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 acres | Las Vegas District | APACHE SPRINGS |
| 3 June 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ALAMO SLOUGH |
| 23 June 2006 | Natural | 150 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 7 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Las Vegas District | TECOLOTITO |
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 Tecolotito: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herrera Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sowell Ranch | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
9 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tecolotito in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Hail | Tecolotito | - | An observer at Tecolotito observed quarter size hail from a severe thunderstorm. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Tecolotito | - | Hail up to two inches in diameter in Tecolotito. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Tecolotito | - | Hail up to three inches in diameter reported in Tecolotito. Some damage was reported in town. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Tecolotito | - | Flash flooding across U.S. Highway 84 north of Dilia. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Tecolotito | - | Hail up to the size of ping pong balls near Tecolotito. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Tecolotito | - | Hail up to the size of quarters covering U.S. Highway 84 to a depth of one to two inches. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Tecolotito | - | Dime to nickel size hail with a few as large as quarters along U.S. Highway 84. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Tecolotito | - | Large hail at least the size of hen eggs reported by storm chaser south of Interstate 40 near Milagro. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Tecolotito | - | A long-lived supercell spawned at least one tornado on its eastward trek across San Miguel County. A confirmed touchdown was reported and photographed north of Anton Chico. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Cerrito | 8.6 miles | 15 | |
| Apache Springs | 9.7 miles | 14 | |
| Lagunita | 10.2 miles | 14 | |
| Villanueva | 10.9 miles | 15 | |
| Park Springs | 12.4 miles | 13 | |
| San Juan | 12.5 miles | 15 | |
| Chapelle | 12.8 miles | 15 | |
| Lovato | 12.8 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 Tecolotito | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5481889 | 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 911582. 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.






