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Wagon Mound, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wagon Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87752. It lies near The Wagon Mound. The Survey maps it on the Wagon Mound quadrangle. 266 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,201 feet above sea level.

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Wagon Mound within Mora County

On record in Wagon Mound

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Wagon Mound fell from 369 to 266 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.

YearPeople Change
2000369
2010314-55 (-15%)
2020266-48 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Wagon Mound between 1995 and 2020, burning about 22,320 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined7
Natural6
Smoking1

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
2 September 2005Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
28 August 2001Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionESCAPE
16 July 2009Natural200 acresLas Vegas DistrictTURNER
10 July 2006Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
4 June 2020Natural21 acresLas Vegas District20-40750605X
10 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMICHELLE
20 May 2006Natural8,992 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLEVI
4 April 2018Smoking4.0 acresLas Vegas DistrictWAGON MOUND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wagon Mound: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone. 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
Santa Rosa Jet DepositGemstonePast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Mora County

Storms near this place

57 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wagon Mound in 57 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 48 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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
June 2003HailWagon Mound$15,000no account filed
August 1993HailWagon Mound$5,000Thunderstorms produced quater-size hail in Wagon Mound at 1700 MST.
July 2023HailWagon Mound$3,000Hail broke three skylights, damage is an estimate. Half-dollar size hail reported alongside larger but shorter duration 2.75 inch hail. Hail persisted until approximately 5:10 pm MDT before quitting.
June 2014HailWagon Mound$3,000Six inches of hail on Interstate 25 caused a semi-trailer truck to jack knife. Plows were dispatched.
June 2007HailWagon Mound$2,000no account filed
October 2008Thunderstorm WindWagon Mound$1,000Several downed trees and damage to an awning on a house were reported.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWagon Mound$500A large tree branch was blown down onto the side of a home. A power line fell onto a nearby barn. No structural damage occurred.
July 2023HailWagon Mound-Quarter size hail reported in Wagon Mound on the edge of a passing thunderstorm.
July 2023HailWagon Mound-Half-dollar size hail reported alongside larger but shorter duration 2.75 inch hail. Hail persisted until approximately 5:10 pm MDT before quitting.
July 2023HailWagon Mound-Golf ball sized hail fell with a rapidly developing supercell between Wagon Mound and Roy.
October 2023HailWagon Mound-Heavy accumulations of dime to nickel size hail was observed on the ground.
June 2022HailWagon Mound-A spotter near Wagon Mound reported nickel size hail.
June 2022Tornado (EF0)Wagon Mound-A storm chaser reported a brief, weak landspout tornado over open rangeland near Maes. No damage was reported.
July 2021HailWagon Mound-A strong thunderstorm near Wagon Mound produced nickel size hail as it tracked southward through the area.
May 2020HailWagon Mound-Lots of hail up to the size of nickels covering the ground near Mills Canyon.
May 2020HailWagon Mound-Pea size hail with a few larger stones up to penny size fell over rural Mora County.
August 2017HailWagon Mound-Hail up to the size of golf balls reported eight miles southwest of Wagon Mound.
August 2017HailWagon Mound-Hail up to the size of golf balls near Wagon Mound.
June 2017HailWagon Mound-Half dollar size hail.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWagon Mound-Wind gust to 70 mph. No damage.
June 2017HailWagon Mound-Hail up to the size of ping pong balls northwest of Wagon Mound.
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Wagon Mound-A KRQE viewer sent in a picture of a small tornado southeast of Wagon Mound. No damage was reported.
June 2017HailWagon Mound-Golf ball size hail.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Wagon Mound-Storm chasers spotted a well developed tornado east of Interstate 25 a few miles northeast of Wagon Mound.
June 2016HailWagon Mound-Ping pong ball size hail east of Wagon Mound.
July 2016HailWagon Mound-Pea to quarter size hail accumulated 2 to 3 inches deep in Wagon Mound.
June 2015HailWagon Mound-New Mexico Department of Transportation reported up to a foot of penny to quarter size hail fell on interstate 25 near Wagon Mound.
June 2014HailWagon Mound-Pea to quarter size hail.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindWagon Mound-A passing virga shower produced a severe wind gust at the northeast New Mexico landfill.
May 2012HailWagon Mound-The LJM travel center reported 1.50 inch diameter hail.
May 2012HailWagon Mound-Hail covered Interstate 25 to a depth of at least 1 inch.
June 2012HailWagon Mound-Nickel size hail reported 3 miles north of Wagon Mound.
June 2012HailWagon Mound-Quarter size hail reported in Wagon Mound.
August 2009HailWagon Mound-The Police Department confirmed golf ball size hail along Interstate 25.
August 1999Funnel CloudWagon Mound-A small funnel cloud was reported by rangers from the Ft Union National Monument.
May 2023HailWagon Mound-no account filed
June 2014Funnel CloudWagon Mound-no account filed
June 2010HailWagon Mound-no account filed
July 2009HailWagon Mound-no account filed
July 2008HailWagon Mound-no account filed
July 2008HailWagon Mound-no account filed
September 2007HailWagon Mound-no account filed
June 2007HailWagon Mound-no account filed
September 2007HailWagon Mound-no account filed
June 2006HailWagon Mound-no account filed
August 2006HailWagon Mound-no account filed
July 2005HailWagon Mound-no account filed
July 2005HailWagon Mound-no account filed
August 2004HailWagon Mound-no account filed
June 2003HailWagon Mound-no account filed
July 2003HailWagon Mound-no account filed
May 2001HailWagon Mound-no account filed
July 2000HailWagon Mound-no account filed
June 1999HailWagon Mound-no account filed
June 1997HailWagon Mound-no account filed
July 1996HailWagon Mound-no account filed
June 1995HailWagon Mound-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mora 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
Levy5.6 miles8
Ciruela7.0 miles13
Optimo9.7 miles13
Nolan (historical)11.0 miles8
Shoemaker16.0 miles13
Cherry Valley (historical)16.6 miles13
Valmora17.5 miles13
Naranjos18.0 miles8

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 Wagon MoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2537810The 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 915913. 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.