Tome, New Mexico
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Los Lunas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87031. It stands on La Canada de la Loma de Arena. The Survey maps it on the Tome quadrangle. 1,718 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,829 feet above sea level.
On record in Tome
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
El Cerro Tome Sitelisted 1996
Tome Jaillisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresTome fell from 1,867 to 1,718 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 | 1,867 | |
| 2020 | 1,718 | -149 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1952 USGS Tome quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Socorro quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Belen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Tome quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
5 photographs, 2021Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
426 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 426 fires within 5 miles of Tome between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,417 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 222 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 129 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | ANIMAL |
| 28 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SKUNK FIRE |
| 27 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.8 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | AFS FIRE |
| 21 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bernalillo District | HACKSAW FIRE |
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bernalillo District | 20-60460253X |
| 19 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | GROOT FIRE |
| 16 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.1 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MANZANO S |
| 1 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | GIANT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Tome: 6 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crusher No. 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Materials Pit 65-28-F | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 56-10-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 57-133-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Materials Pit 72-8-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tome in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tome | $5,000 | Several roofs were damaged and sheds were ripped apart during a late afternoon storm moving across Tome. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Tome | - | Nickel to golf ball size hail reported near and just south of Los Lunas, NM. |
| September 2017 | Hail | Tome | - | Hail up to the size of quarters near Tome. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tome | - | Peak wind gust up to 62 mph downed small tree limbs in Tome. |
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 Cerro | 1.3 miles | 10 | |
| Adelino | 1.7 miles | 10 | |
| Los Chavez | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Rio del Oro | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| La Ladera | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Pasitos del Cielo | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| Las Maravillas | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Azul | 3.6 miles | 10 |
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 Tome | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5397251 | 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 899958. 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.





