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Cedar Hill, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Aztec census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87410. It lies near Cox Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Hill quadrangle. 1,130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,863 feet above sea level.

Cedar Hill within San Juan County

Population over time

2 figures

Cedar Hill grew from 847 to 1,130 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
2010847
20201,130+283 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 106 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
Natural106
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeDUTCHMAN
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyTACO
30 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeMILLER CAN
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeJUNIPER 2
6 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field Office2400
4 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeHIGH HOPES
4 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeLONG GLADE
4 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeCOTTONWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cedar Hill: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Chilton ProspectUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Hill in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 2 flash flood. 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 1999Flash FloodCedar Hill$20,000Heavy rain near Cedar Hill produced brief flooding of Country Road 2900 along the Animas River while flooding of a normally dry arroyo feeding into the river swept into several homes built on the river's edge.
July 2010Flash FloodCedar Hill-Cox Canyon Bridge on County Road 2900 just southwest of Cedar Hill collapsed. Officials say the bridge collapsed because water running down the canyon hit the bridge at an angle and the eddy it created, ripped out the structure's support. The residents of about 100 homes were left stranded.

Every storm recorded in San Juan 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
Riverside3.2 miles16
Inca3.6 miles16
Center Point5.1 miles16
Aztec9.6 miles16
Spencerville12.0 miles19
Archuleta13.8 miles15
Flora Vista14.1 miles19
Alcatraz14.3 miles16

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 Cedar HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5759927The 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 902202. 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.