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Williamsburg, New Mexico

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Truth or Consequences East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87942. It lies near Mud Springs Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle. 462 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,236 feet above sea level.

Williamsburg within Sierra County

Population over time

3 figures

Williamsburg fell from 527 to 462 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
2000527
2010449-78 (-15%)
2020462+13 (+3%)

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.

Fires near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Williamsburg between 1993 and 2019, burning about 246 acres in total. None 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/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMM73 I-25
10 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMIMS
25 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOOL
12 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use27 acresSocorro DistrictBROWN
7 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMARSH
7 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMESCAL
6 April 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCOCKABURR
26 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTURTLE BACK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sierra County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Williamsburg: 29 past producers, 12 prospects, 7 unknowns, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
AshlandSeleniumProspect
Barney Iorio Number OneGeothermalUnknown
Black Jack GroupManganese, TungstenPast Producer1939, 1942, 1958
Blue Jacket ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, SilicaPast Producer
Candy Rock Strip MineGemstoneProducerSedimentary
Dredge Tailings 3GoldUnknown
Equator and Iron Reef GroupCopper, SilverPast Producer
Forty-One ClaimFluorine-Fluorite, ManganesePast Producer1952
Illinois GroupFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Barium-BariteProducer1918, 1953
Oakland VeinBarium-Barite, Calcium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1924, 1926

Every working recorded in Sierra County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamsburg in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2020Flash FloodWilliamsburg$2,400,000There was extensive flash flooding of roads and buildings around Truth or Consequences and Williamsburg. Near-zero visibility was reported in the heavy rain along with pea sized hail. A trained spotter reported 4.10 inches of rain in about one hour. A car was washed off the road. Multiple homes were evacuated around the two towns. The Rio Grande was threatening to exit its banks, therefore causing Elephant Butte Dam having to be closed.
July 2024Flash FloodWilliamsburg-Sierra County dispatch reported flooding across Truth or Consequences, Elephant Butte and Williamsburg.
October 2016HailWilliamsburg-Quarter size hail in Palomas Canyon.
November 2016Flash FloodWilliamsburg-Highway 187 at mile marker 35 south of Williamsburg was closed due to flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Sierra 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
Truth or Consequences2.3 miles9
Las Palomas3.7 miles11
Elephant Butte6.2 miles14
Elephant Butte Estates6.7 miles14
Hot Springs Landing7.7 miles14
Rock Canyon8.6 miles14
Cuchillo9.0 miles9
Caballo9.7 miles9

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 WilliamsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2234407The 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 899996. 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.