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Trujillo, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Trementina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87701. The Survey maps it on the Trujillo quadrangle. It stands 6,444 feet above sea level.

Trujillo within San Miguel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Trujillo between 1996 and 2009, burning about 767 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 July 2004Natural3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCORAZON
7 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionHIKE
18 July 2009Natural50 acresLas Vegas DistrictMAES
10 July 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRIM ROCK
20 June 2004Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLARGO
19 April 2009Natural5.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictCORAZON
3 February 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIGUEL
18 December 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTRUJILLO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Trujillo: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Eloy EstradoUraniumUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trujillo in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 hail, 1 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
August 1997Flash FloodTrujillo$150,000Heavy rain in central San Miguel county produced rock and mud slides which closed Highway 104 about 15 miles west of Trujillo and washed away much of the road material along a 2.6 miles stretch of County Road C-51-A near Trujillo. Several homes in Trujillo were also flooded by runoff.
October 2024HailTrujillo-Penny sized hail was observed near Trujillo on State Highway 104 from a quick moving strong storm.
August 2009HailTrujillo-Hail started with an accumulation of peas then grew in size up to quarters.
September 2007HailTrujillo-Hail was observed at Mile Marker 32.
July 2023HailTrujillo-no account filed
June 2011HailTrujillo-no account filed
June 2011HailTrujillo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Miguel 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
Alta Vista2.8 miles13
Corazon (historical)7.6 miles13
Trementina9.8 miles13
New Trementina11.5 miles6
Montosa12.1 miles13
San Rafael12.8 miles6
Salitre12.8 miles13
San Ramon14.5 miles7

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 Q100139411The 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 899962. 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.