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Tyrone, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88065. The Survey maps it on the Tyrone quadrangle. 712 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,745 feet above sea level.

Tyrone within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Tyrone grew from 637 to 712 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
2010637
2020712+75 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Photographs

8 of 9 photographs shown, 1940

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.

Old buildings and working of Burro Mountain. Copper County, Tyrone, New Mexico
Old buildings and working of Burro Mountain. Copper County, Tyrone, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Old ore cars and ties of inclined railway at copper mine of Burro Mountain Copper Company. Tyrone, New Mexico
Old ore cars and ties of inclined railway at copper mine of Burro Mountain Copper Company. Tyrone, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Entrance to offices of Burro Mountain Copper Company. Tyrone, New Mexico. This copper company is no longer actively engaged in mining in this section but is attempting to make the town with its company housing into a summer resort
Entrance to offices of Burro Mountain Copper Company. Tyrone, New Mexico. This copper company is no longer actively engaged in mining in this section but is attempting to make the town with its company housing into a summer resort
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Tyrone, New Mexico, a town developed by the Burro Mountain Copper Company, now inactive, but which is developing the town as a summer resort
Tyrone, New Mexico, a town developed by the Burro Mountain Copper Company, now inactive, but which is developing the town as a summer resort
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Abandoned school buildings at Tyrone, New Mexico. These were company-built schools
Abandoned school buildings at Tyrone, New Mexico. These were company-built schools
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Abandoned company housing at Tyrone, New Mexico
Abandoned company housing at Tyrone, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Entrance to offices of Burro Mountain Copper Company. Tyrone, New Mexico. This copper company is no longer actively engaged in mining in this section but is attempting to make the town with its company housing into a summer resort
Entrance to offices of Burro Mountain Copper Company. Tyrone, New Mexico. This copper company is no longer actively engaged in mining in this section but is attempting to make the town with its company housing into a summer resort
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Old buildings and working of Burro Mountain. Copper County, Tyrone, New Mexico
Old buildings and working of Burro Mountain. Copper County, Tyrone, New Mexico
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Grant County

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Tyrone between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,230 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined31
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning6
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 August 2011Natural177 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionRUNNING IRON
31 August 2011Natural36 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBOSTON HILL
11 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBOBS
9 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMAUDES
4 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSILVER
23 July 2013Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMCKINNEY 2
18 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCAR CRASH
11 July 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBEAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Tyrone: 24 past producers, 8 prospects, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Manganese, Manganese, Iron, Copper. 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
AfternoonSilver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Baltic MineSilver, Lead, Manganese, Copper, GoldPast Producer1872, 1875, 1939
Clay DepositsFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Contact GroupLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, GoldPast Producer1944
Full Moon MineZinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, GoldPast Producer1947
Grand Central GroupLead, SilverPast Producer
Hill MineMercuryOccurrence
Little Burro Mountains Kaolin DepositKaolinOccurrenceKaolin
Name UnknownUraniumPast ProducerVein
Silver City DistrictSilver, Zinc, Copper, Iron, LeadPast Producer1870

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tyrone in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
January 1993Thunderstorm WindTyrone$50,000no account filed
September 2007Tornado (EF0)Tyrone-A storm chaser photographed a small tornado southwest of Tyrone, NM. It was on the ground for about 15 minutes, but caused no damage as it was in a remote area.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Silver Acres2.5 miles13
Silver City4.3 miles14
Newton (historical)5.6 miles12
Oak Grove5.9 miles13
Arenas Valley8.5 miles13
Little Walnut Village8.8 miles14
North Hurley9.0 miles12
Hurley9.0 miles12

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 TyroneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q13630163The 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 938834. 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.