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Crystal, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Naschitti census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87328. The Survey maps it on the Crystal quadrangle. 302 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,523 feet above sea level.

Crystal within San Juan County

Population over time

2 figures

Crystal fell from 311 to 302 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
2010311
2020302-9 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Crystal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,782 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural53
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementASAAYILAKE
3 September 2009Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCRYSTAL 1 FIRE
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCRYSTAL 3
3 September 1996Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementN7130RD01
22 September 1996Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management7190NORTH
9 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRT12-MP 48
9 August 1995Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management7140 PIT
5 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBERLINLK-1

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 Crystal: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
Chuska Mountains DepositManganeseOccurrence1955

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 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
August 2010Flash FloodCrystal-Navajo Route 134 was impassible due to high water at mile marker 22.

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
Toadlena13.8 miles18
Naschitti15.1 miles18
Sheep Springs15.1 miles18
Two Grey Hills15.8 miles18
Newcomb21.5 miles20
Tocito26.3 miles19
Sanostee26.6 miles19
Little Water30.5 miles20

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 CrystalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1908744The 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 902227. 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.