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.
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
Tierra Amarilla Historic Districtlisted 1986- Tierra Amarilla AFS P-8 Historic Districtlisted 2001
- Tierra Amarilla Community Ditchlisted 1986
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Pueblito Kin Yazhi, Junction of Canyon Largo & Rincon Largo, Tierra Amarillafederal building survey, 3 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresTierra 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 382 | |
| 2020 | 297 | -85 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Tierra Amarilla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chama quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Tierra Amarilla quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
133 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 58 |
| Natural | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TINA |
| 18 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | VALDEZ FIRE |
| 14 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chama District | 512 POWERLINE |
| 9 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SALAZAR |
| 9 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | JUNCTION |
| 7 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Chama District | PLAZA |
| 7 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DANDY |
| 6 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SAMURI |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eturriaga Rock Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| B - 01294 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lower Brazos | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit No. 65-64-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Rutheron Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Hail | Tierra Amarilla | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ensenada | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Los Ojos | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| La Puente | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Rutheron | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Brazos | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Las Nutrias | 8.3 miles | 11 | |
| Crowther Cow Camp | 11.1 miles | 14 | |
| Cebolla | 11.7 miles | 14 |
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 Amarilla | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1221066 | 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 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.






