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White Rock, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the White Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87547. It lies near Pajarito Canyon. The Survey maps it on the White Rock quadrangle. 5,852 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,365 feet above sea level.

White Rock within Los Alamos County

Population over time

2 figures

White Rock grew from 5,725 to 5,852 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
20105,725
20205,852+127 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of White Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 319 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1993Naturalunder an acreBandelier National MonumentCASTLERUN
13 September 2017Naturalunder an acreNorthern Pueblos AgencySACRED AREA
11 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Pueblos Agency65
8 August 2006Naturalunder an acreBandelier National MonumentLADDER
17 August 2012Naturalunder an acreBandelier National MonumentCAVATE
13 August 2007Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestPAREJO
9 July 1999Natural2.0 acresNorthern Pueblos AgencySACREDAREA
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBandelier National MonumentROUTE 4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Alamos County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of White Rock: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
Copar Guaje Canyon MinePumiceProducerPumice
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Los Alamos County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Rock in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Flash FloodWhite Rock$10,000Boulders and several rock slides poured onto route 4 between White Rock and the Bandelier National Monument due to heavy rain.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWhite Rock-A Los Alamos National Laboratory mesonet 5 miles south southwest of Los Alamos recorded a wind gust of 59 mph from a severe thunderstorm.
August 2013Funnel CloudWhite Rock-A funnel cloud developed just to the southwest of White Rock. A photo taken by Karl Maness showed a well developed funnel as viewed from the LANL Emergency Operations Center.

Every storm recorded in Los Alamos 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
Los Alamos6.9 miles21
Upper Frijoles Crossing8.4 miles21

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 White RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2738861The 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 912322. 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.