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Crownpoint, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Crownpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87313. The Survey maps it on the Crownpoint quadrangle. 2,900 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,982 feet above sea level.

Crownpoint within McKinley County

On record in Crownpoint

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 6 records

Population over time

3 figures

Crownpoint grew from 2,630 to 2,900 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
20002,630
20102,278-352 (-13%)
20202,900+622 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Crownpoint Hospital, Lombardy Street, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM
Crownpoint Hospital, Lombardy Street, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Bee Burrow, Seven Lakes Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM
Bee Burrow, Seven Lakes Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Crownpoint in 2020, burning about 2 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/undetermined1

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
4 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBernalillo District20-61640600X

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Crownpoint: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 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
Canyon DepositUraniumOccurrence1974
Crownpoint MineUraniumUnknown
Crownpoint-Section 29 MineUraniumOccurrence1972
Crownpoint-South Trend DepositUraniumPast Producer1975, 1979, 1981
Saint JudeUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crownpoint in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 funnel cloud, 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
June 2022Funnel CloudCrownpoint-A member of the public in Crownpoint spotted a funnel cloud that did not make contact with the ground.
July 2014Funnel CloudCrownpoint-no account filed
June 1999HailCrownpoint-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McKinley 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
Borrego Pass10.7 miles14
Smith Lake10.8 miles14
Mariano Lake11.4 miles14
Seven Lakes13.6 miles17
Standing Rock14.1 miles13
Pinedale16.5 miles14
North Guam17.6 miles16
South Guam18.5 miles17

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 CrownpointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2235499The 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 902810. 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.