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Doña Ana, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Doña Ana-Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88007. The Survey maps it on the Dona Ana quadrangle. 874 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,960 feet above sea level.

Doña Ana within Doña Ana County

Population over time

3 figures

Doña Ana fell from 1,379 to 874 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
20001,379
20101,211-168 (-12%)
2020874-337 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Doña Ana between 1994 and 2018, burning about 61 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Firearms and explosives use1
Smoking1

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
24 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeRED HAWK
15 June 1994Smokingunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeMM 12
12 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeMESA GRANDE
30 May 2001Firearms and explosives use1.5 acresLas Cruces Field OfficePOWERLINE
28 May 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeBLUFF
10 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeANGI
27 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeCOSMO
14 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionWOODMAN PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Doña Ana: 12 producers, 8 occurrences, 6 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Copper. 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
East Dagger Flat ProspectCopperOccurrenceMalachite
Hill PitStoneProducerSedimentary
Last Chance GroupManganeseOccurrenceVein
Materials Pit 58-34-SStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceLimestone
Unnamed Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceLimestone
Unnamed Rhyolite ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceRhyolite
Unnamed Rhyolite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerRhyolite
Highway 70 Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Las Cruces West Sand and Gravel SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand and Gravel

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
San Ysidro2.7 miles15
Hill3.4 miles15
Picacho4.9 miles15
Las Cruces5.7 miles15
Leasburg5.8 miles16
Picacho Hills6.1 miles15
Fairacres6.2 miles15
Spaceport City6.9 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 Doña AnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1019692The 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 899608. 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.