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Tonuco, New Mexico

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Hatch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87940. It lies near San Diego Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Selden Canyon quadrangle.

Tonuco within Doña Ana County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tonuco between 1993 and 2008, burning about 286 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined3
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
2 July 1993Fireworks1.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeRADIUM RR
4 June 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeMOON
29 June 1994Natural25 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeCEDERVILLE
7 May 1993Smoking6.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeSELDON
18 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeRIVER
27 February 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeRADIUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Tonuco: 9 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
HustManganese, IronProspect
San Diego Mountain ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BariteOccurrenceVein
San Diego Mountain Travertine OccurrencesLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceCalcite, Travertine
Tonuco MineBarium-Barite, Silica, Fluorine-Fluorite, CalciumPast Producer
Tonuco MineSilica, Fluorine-Fluorite, Calcium, Barium-BaritePast Producer1918
Materials Pit 63-3-SStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
TonucoFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Tonuco MineFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer1917, 1918, 1928
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
HustManganesePast Producer1958

Storms near this place

2 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonuco in 2 storm reports in 2025: 2 flash flood. 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
June 2025Flash FloodTonuco-Another round of storms in the day brought flash flooding to areas of Highway 185 about 5 miles south-southeast of Rincon with several low water crossings impassable.
September 2025Flash FloodTonuco-New Mexico Highway 185 was closed between mile markers 18 and 24 due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Doña Ana 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
Angostura6.6 miles8
Rincon6.7 miles8
Radium Springs7.2 miles12
Fort Selden8.6 miles16
Rodey8.7 miles9
Hatch9.8 miles9
Placitas10.5 miles9
Grama10.7 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122589750The 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 899959. 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.