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Villanueva, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Villanueva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87583. It lies near CaƱon de la Presta. The Survey maps it on the Villanueva quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,869 feet above sea level.

Villanueva within San Miguel County

On record in Villanueva

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Villanueva fell from 229 to 207 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
2010229
2020207-22 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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,

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.

Spanish American Villages of the Pecos River Valley, General View, Upper Pecos River Valley, Villanueva, San Miguel County, NM
Spanish American Villages of the Pecos River Valley, General View, Upper Pecos River Valley, Villanueva, San Miguel County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Village of Villanueva, Upper Pecos River Valley, Villanueva, San Miguel County, NM
Village of Villanueva, Upper Pecos River Valley, Villanueva, San Miguel County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Villanueva between 1993 and 2019, burning about 132 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Natural4
Other causes1

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
28 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionVILLANUEVA
4 August 2010Naturalunder an acreLas Vegas DistrictVILLANUEVA
16 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionBACA
25 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionVIC
23 June 2006Natural1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
21 June 2003Natural50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSARGE
17 June 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionORTIZ
8 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPUERTO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villanueva in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 12 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 2022HailVillanueva-A COOP observer near Villanueva reported dime to quarter size hail from a thunderstorm.
August 2022Flash FloodVillanueva-A COOP observer near Villanueva reported that the heavy rain caused flooding with water over roadways within the village. No damage was reported.
June 2017HailVillanueva-Hail up to the size of quarters near Villanueva.
May 2010HailVillanueva-Primarily one inch hail came down occasionally for 15 minutes. However, a few stones were as large as golf balls.
June 2023HailVillanueva-no account filed
July 2013HailVillanueva-no account filed
May 2010HailVillanueva-no account filed
August 2008HailVillanueva-no account filed
May 2008HailVillanueva-no account filed
May 2005HailVillanueva-no account filed
July 2003HailVillanueva-no account filed
September 1999HailVillanueva-no account filed
July 1996HailVillanueva-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
Lovato2.2 miles15
El Cerrito2.7 miles15
Sena2.8 miles15
La Fragua4.1 miles15
Garanbuio4.4 miles15
Barranco4.9 miles15
Gonzales Ranch5.5 miles15
Lower Pueblo5.5 miles15

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 VillanuevaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7930892The 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 915912. 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.

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.