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Tesuque, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Santa Fe North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87506. It stands on Tesuque Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tesuque quadrangle. 1,094 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,759 feet above sea level.

Tesuque within Santa Fe County

On record in Tesuque

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Tesuque grew from 909 to 1,094 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.

YearPeople Change
2000909
2010925+16 (+2%)
20201,094+169 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2021

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

A pink-limestone formation near Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico, near Santa Fe, that enough people believe looks like a resting camel that the formation is known as Camel Rock
A pink-limestone formation near Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico, near Santa Fe, that enough people believe looks like a resting camel that the formation is known as Camel Rock
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Tesuque between 1992 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined16
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestLITTLE TESUQUE
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
1 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBROTHERS
8 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestSKI HIL FIRE
10 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestGABALDON
8 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWOODCUTTER
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPALMOOD
6 July 2018Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestGABALDON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tesuque: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Manganese. 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
Kosack Mining CoGold, SilverPast Producer
Santa Fe Manganese DistrictManganesePast Producer1917

Every working recorded in Santa Fe County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tesuque in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Flash FloodTesuque$150,000Heavy rain in the Tesuque and Chupadero areas resulted in flash flooding. North-northwest of Tesuque, an arroyo overflowed its banks and flooded a backyard near the intersection of Tesuque Village Road and Highway 592. Flash flooding and mud flow also trapped 15 cars in a Tesuque market. Near Chupadero, the emergency manager reported that water over Rio En Medio Road in six locations along roadway. Damages are estimated.
July 2010LightningTesuque$15,000Lightning struck the satellite dish on top of a home southwest of Tesuque. The current traveled down a PVC pipe into the house and blew out a 1 by 2 foot area of sheet rock.
July 2012Flash FloodTesuque$10,000Over 1 foot of mud and rocks washed over roadways in Tesuque around the Village Market and Elementary School. Public works crews spent multiple hours removing mud and rocks with several dump trucks. One car was stranded in the mud.
May 2016HailTesuque-Pea to nickel size hail near Tesuque.
August 2013HailTesuque-Nickel size hail at the Santa Fe Opera.
August 2008HailTesuque-no account filed
June 2007HailTesuque-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodTesuque-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Fe 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
Tano Road2.4 miles23
Tesuque Pueblo3.6 miles19
Chupadero4.3 miles19
Rio En Medio4.6 miles19
En Medio4.7 miles19
Santa Fe5.2 miles23
Las Dos5.2 miles20
Analco (historical)5.4 miles23

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 TesuqueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2141414The 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 918382. 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.