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Vadito, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Picuris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87579. It lies near Telephone Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Penasco quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,451 feet above sea level.

Vadito within Taos County

On record in Vadito

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Vadito fell from 270 to 258 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
2010270
2020258-12 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

2 photographs, 1943

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.

Vadito, Taos County, New Mexico. A very poor Spanish-American home
Vadito, Taos County, New Mexico. A very poor Spanish-American home
Collier, John, Jr, 1943. Library of Congress
Vadito, Taos County, New Mexico. A very poor Spanish-American home
Vadito, Taos County, New Mexico. A very poor Spanish-American home
Collier, John, Jr, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Vadito between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,101 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 5 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
Natural47
Debris and open burning19
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution56 acresTaos Field OfficeUS HILL
2 September 2019Natural1,954 acresCarson National ForestAMOLE
12 September 2016Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestVIEW POINT
9 August 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCarson National ForestAMOLE
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLIANO
7 August 2016Naturalunder an acreCimarron DistrictUPPER LLANO
4 August 2005Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestLLANO
3 August 2009Natural1.0 acresCarson National ForestBORREGO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taos County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Vadito: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M.I.C.A. MineMicaProducerMetamorphic
Taos MillMicaUnknown
TojoMicaProducer
Tojo MineMicaProducer1954
U. S. Hill MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taos County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vadito in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
July 2021Flash FloodVadito$500,000An estimated 1.5 to 4 inches of heavy rainfall over the course of 3 hours resulted in flash flooding across the historic Picuris Pueblo. As water over topped an arroyo, flood waters rapidly entered the tribal administration building which sustained damages to the flooring. A gym, senior center, and transportation building were also hit hard by the flood waters which also all sustained various amounts of floor damage. Several grave markers in the tribal cemetery were dislodged by the flood waters. Damages to a hydrologic weir that feeds the fish hatchery pond, which houses about 5,000 fish, were also reported. No injuries or fatalities were reported, and damages are estimated.

Every storm recorded in Taos 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
Peñasco1.7 miles11
Rio Pueblo1.8 miles11
Picuris Pueblo2.2 miles11
Rodarte2.7 miles11
Rock Wall2.8 miles11
Rio Lucio2.9 miles11
Llano Largo3.5 miles11
Llano3.6 miles11

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 VaditoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3301879The 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 912019. 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.