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.
Population over time
2 figuresTyrone 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 637 | |
| 2020 | 712 | +75 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1909 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Tyrone quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Tyrone quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Tyrone quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
8 of 9 photographs shown, 1940Taken 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.
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Every photograph of Grant County
Fires near this place
60 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 31 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2011 | Natural | 177 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | RUNNING IRON |
| 31 August 2011 | Natural | 36 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BOSTON HILL |
| 11 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BOBS |
| 9 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MAUDES |
| 4 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | SILVER |
| 23 July 2013 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | MCKINNEY 2 |
| 18 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | CAR CRASH |
| 11 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | BEAR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 38 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afternoon | Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Baltic Mine | Silver, Lead, Manganese, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1872, 1875, 1939 | |
| Clay Deposits | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Prospect | ||
| Contact Group | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Gold | Past Producer | 1944 | |
| Full Moon Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1947 | |
| Grand Central Group | Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Hill Mine | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Little Burro Mountains Kaolin Deposit | Kaolin | Occurrence | Kaolin | |
| Name Unknown | Uranium | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Silver City District | Silver, Zinc, Copper, Iron, Lead | Past Producer | 1870 |
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyrone | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Tornado (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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Acres | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Silver City | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Newton (historical) | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Oak Grove | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Arenas Valley | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Little Walnut Village | 8.8 miles | 14 | |
| North Hurley | 9.0 miles | 12 | |
| Hurley | 9.0 miles | 12 |
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 Tyrone | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q13630163 | 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 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.







