Hernandez is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in

Rio Arriba County Rio Arriba County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 40,246. Its county seat is Tierra Amarilla. Its northern border is the Colorado state line. Rio Arriba County comprises the Española, N ...

, New Mexico, United States. Hernandez is approximately northwest of Española on highway US 84 / US 285.

Geography

Within the unincorporated community is the built-up CDP of Hernandez, with an area of . The Hernandez CDP had a population of 946 in the 2010 census, The entire Hernandez area () has the ZIP code 87537, pointing to ZIP Code Tabulation Area 87537 (ZCTA), with a population of 2,957 in the 2010 U.S. census.

Demographics

The racial makeup of the Hernandez ZCTA was 58.4% White, 0.4% African American, 2.6% Native American, 0.4%

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, 35.3% from other races, and 2.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or

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of any race were 88.9% of the population.

Education

It is in

Española Public Schools Española Public School District #55 (EPSD) or Española Public Schools (EPS) is a school district based in Española, New Mexico, USA. It includes sections of Rio Arriba County and Santa Fe County. In the year 2000 the district had a total of 16 ...

. Hernandez has one elementary school, Hernandez Elementary. The comprehensive public high school is

Española Valley High School Española Valley High School (EVHS) is a Title-1 public senior high school of the Española Public Schools District, located in Española, New Mexico. Nearly 3/4 of the student body is made up of Hispanic students. The school is located within th ...

In popular culture

Hernandez became well known as the site of '' Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico'', a black and white photograph taken by

Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advoca ...

, late in the afternoon on November 1, 1941, from a shoulder of highway US 84 / US 285. The fame of Hernandez grew when an escalation in the market value of photographic works was launched in 1971, when a 1948 print of this image of Hernandez sold at auction "for the then-unheard-of price of $71,500" ($ today), with that same copy selling in 2006 for $609,600 ($ today) at a Sotheby's New York auction. In 1931, Georgia O'Keeffe visited the community and completed her painting ''Another Church, Hernandez, New Mexico'', showing the front and partial interior of an adobe church in the community.

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