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Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Tierra Amarilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87575. The Survey maps it on the Tierra Amarilla quadrangle. 297 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,530 feet above sea level.

Tierra Amarilla within Rio Arriba County

On record in Tierra Amarilla

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 3 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Tierra Amarilla fell from 382 to 297 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
2010382
2020297-85 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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,

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.

Pueblito Kin Yazhi, Junction of Canyon Largo & Rincon Largo, Tierra Amarilla, Rio Arriba County, NM
Pueblito Kin Yazhi, Junction of Canyon Largo & Rincon Largo, Tierra Amarilla, Rio Arriba County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Tierra Amarilla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 39 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Natural39
Debris and open burning28
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTINA
18 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionVALDEZ FIRE
14 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChama District512 POWERLINE
9 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSALAZAR
9 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJUNCTION
7 August 2013Naturalunder an acreChama DistrictPLAZA
7 August 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDANDY
6 August 2012Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSAMURI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tierra Amarilla: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Eturriaga Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
B - 01294 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lower BrazosSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit No. 65-64-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Rutheron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tierra Amarilla in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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 2003HailTierra Amarilla-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Ensenada2.1 miles12
Los Ojos2.3 miles12
La Puente2.7 miles12
Rutheron3.5 miles12
Brazos3.6 miles14
Las Nutrias8.3 miles11
Crowther Cow Camp11.1 miles14
Cebolla11.7 miles14

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 Tierra AmarillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1221066The 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 923704. 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.