Animas, New Mexico
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the South Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88020. The Survey maps it on the Animas quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,406 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAnimas fell from 237 to 180 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 237 | |
| 2020 | 180 | -57 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Animas quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Animas quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Animas between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3,127 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DARNELL |
| 16 June 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | WAMEL |
| 13 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Las Cruces Field Office | ANIMAS |
| 28 February 2000 | Smoking | 3,095 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | XT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Animas in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Animas | $25,000 | About 20 power poles were down between Animas and Rodeo. Power was out for over 36 hours in these areas. |
| October 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Animas | $2,000 | Power poles down in Animas. |
| October 2017 | Heavy Rain | Animas | - | A total of 3.60 inches of rain was reported about 3 miles southeast of Animas. |
| October 2017 | Flash Flood | Animas | - | Dirt roads were washed out just to the southeast of Animas. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Animas | - | A wind gust was estimated at 60 mph along with low visibility from blowing dust. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Animas | - | Pea to nickel sized hail covered the ground. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Animas | - | Nickel size hail covered the ground on a ranch north of Animas. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Animas | - | Dime to golf ball size hail was reported by a U.S. Customs agent at the checkpoint in Antelope Wells. |
| October 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Animas | - | A weak landspout tornado was observed by NM State Police south of Animas. It remained over unpopulated desert terrain. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Animas | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Animas | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antelope | 5.0 miles | 17 | |
| Windmill | 9.9 miles | 17 | |
| Cotton City | 10.3 miles | 9 | |
| White Place | 10.6 miles | 17 | |
| Jim Robinson | 12.3 miles | 12 | |
| Rodeo | 14.2 miles | 21 | |
| Playas | 14.7 miles | 17 | |
| Spears | 15.1 miles | 14 |
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 Animas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q260083 | The 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 885759. 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.







