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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.

Tome within Valencia County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Tome 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,867
20201,718-149 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

5 photographs, 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.

Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress
Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Artist Armando Alvarez Compean's 1997 La Puerta Del Sol metal-art sculpture grouping below Tome near the settlement of Tome in New Mexico's Rio Grande River floodplain
Highsmith, Carol M, 2021. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

426 since 1992

Regional 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 burning222
Missing data/not specified/undetermined129
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism6
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2

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
7 September 2011Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionANIMAL
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSKUNK FIRE
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionAFS FIRE
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo DistrictHACKSAW FIRE
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo District20-60460253X
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGROOT FIRE
16 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMANZANO S
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionGIANT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valencia County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crusher No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Materials Pit 65-28-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 56-10-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 57-133-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 72-8-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Valencia County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindTome$5,000Several roofs were damaged and sheds were ripped apart during a late afternoon storm moving across Tome.
September 2025HailTome-Nickel to golf ball size hail reported near and just south of Los Lunas, NM.
September 2017HailTome-Hail up to the size of quarters near Tome.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindTome-Peak wind gust up to 62 mph downed small tree limbs in Tome.

Every storm recorded in Valencia 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
El Cerro1.3 miles10
Adelino1.7 miles10
Los Chavez1.9 miles10
Rio del Oro2.2 miles10
La Ladera2.3 miles10
Pasitos del Cielo2.5 miles10
Las Maravillas3.2 miles10
Azul3.6 miles10

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 TomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5397251The 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.