Tijeras, New Mexico
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2006. It stands in the East Bernalillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87059. It lies near Corral Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tijeras quadrangle. 465 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,322 feet above sea level.
On record in Tijeras
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 2 records
Holy Child Churchlisted 1978- Whitcomb Springslisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresTijeras fell from 541 to 465 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 | 541 | |
| 2020 | 465 | -76 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1892 USGS San Pedro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Tijeras quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Tijeras quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1990 USGS Tijeras quadrangle1:24000
- 2006 USGS Tijeras quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
150 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Tijeras between 1992 and 2020, burning about 149 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 59 |
| Natural | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | 462 |
| 25 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | not named |
| 22 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | CEDRO WEST |
| 14 September 2019 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Cibola National Forest | HAWK WATCH |
| 6 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | BEARSCAT |
| 4 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | LOMAS |
| 30 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | ROBIN |
| 28 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | KIWANIS 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 35 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Tijeras: 12 producers, 11 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 4 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Ideal Basic Industries Cement Plant and Quarry | Cement Rock | Producer | 1959 | |
| Little Apples Co. Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Mary M | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Mary M Mine | Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Shakespeare Mine | Barium-Barite, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Barite, Chalcocite, Copper, Fluorite | |
| Silver Ring-Verdun Claims | Gold, Silver, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Tijeras Mine | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Tijeras Pit | Clay, Stone | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown Name Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tijeras in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy snow. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1997 | Heavy Snow | Tijeras | 1 killed | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Tijeras | $35,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Tijeras | $10,000 | Heavy rain from slow moving severe thunderstorms resulted in severe flash flooding in the East Mountain communities of Cedar Crest, Tijeras and Sedillo. A 300 pound woodchipper was carried downstream on the normally dry Arroyo de San Antonio until becoming lodged in a tree. Video taken by a viewer in Tijeras and shared by a broadcast meteorologist shows Tijeras Arroyo flowing out of banks. A small tree was also moving downstream in the arroyo. Spotters also observed flood waters flowing down hillsides around Tijeras, Tablazon, and Zuzax with hail, rocks, mud, and debris covering parts of SR-333. Finally, low water crossings were completely flooded on secondary roads just east and south of the Zuzax exit at I-40. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Tijeras | - | Nickel hail reported 4 miles south of Tijeras. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Tijeras | - | The nickel sized hail was soft and mushy. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flash Flood | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Tijeras | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Tijeras | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon Estates | 0.4 miles | 21 | |
| Primera Agua | 0.6 miles | 21 | |
| San Antonio | 1.6 miles | 21 | |
| Kemp (historical) | 2.0 miles | 21 | |
| Cedar Crest | 2.0 miles | 18 | |
| Casa Loma | 2.1 miles | 21 | |
| Zamora | 2.3 miles | 18 | |
| Forest Park | 2.6 miles | 18 |
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 Tijeras | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q931463 | 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 911709. 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.









