Tse Bonito, New Mexico
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86515. It lies in Tse Bonito Valley. The Survey maps it on the Window Rock quadrangle. 380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,824 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresTse Bonito grew from 261 to 380 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 261 | |
| 2010 | 299 | +38 (+15%) |
| 2020 | 380 | +81 (+27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1886 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Fort Defiance quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Zith-Tusayan Butte 4 NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Window Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Ganado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
85 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Tse Bonito between 1992 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 10 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 | 39 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | TSE BONITO |
| 4 September 1992 | Other causes | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | KTNN-SHED |
| 3 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | THSOHOTSO WASH |
| 14 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | 90600RDE |
| 14 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | PIGEON-SPR |
| 11 September 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | ST. MICHAELS |
| 13 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Puerco Valley Fire District | not named |
| 9 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | H264/N54PM |
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tse Bonito: 2 unknowns. None of them 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Defiance | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Springs | 11.7 miles | 15 | |
| Defiance | 13.8 miles | 15 | |
| Yah-ta-hey | 14.0 miles | 13 | |
| Mentmore | 14.3 miles | 15 | |
| Twin Lakes | 14.6 miles | 13 | |
| Twin Buttes | 14.7 miles | 15 | |
| Mexican Springs | 14.7 miles | 15 | |
| Nakaibito | 14.7 miles | 15 |
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 Tse Bonito | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1850538 | 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 897558. 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.









