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Gallup, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gallup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87301. It lies near Black Diamond Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Gallup East quadrangle. 21,899 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,467 feet above sea level.

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Gallup within McKinley County

On record in Gallup

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

On the National Register 12 of 16 shown

Every listing in McKinley County

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Gallup grew from 21,678 to 21,899 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
201021,678
202021,899+221 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Photographs

8 of 35 photographs shown, 1943 to 2020

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.

Gallup, New Mexico. Ben Acory, an Indian worker employed at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad car shops
Gallup, New Mexico. Ben Acory, an Indian worker employed at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad car shops
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Small mural portals on a wall of the Rex Museum, once a brothel, later a grocery store, and now (as of 2021) a historical museum in Gallup, a small city near the Arizona border in far-western New Mexico
Small mural portals on a wall of the Rex Museum, once a brothel, later a grocery store, and now (as of 2021) a historical museum in Gallup, a small city near the Arizona border in far-western New Mexico
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
This "forever" train in scrub-brush country, east of Gallup, New Mexico, is not uncommon in the American West
This "forever" train in scrub-brush country, east of Gallup, New Mexico, is not uncommon in the American West
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
The refurbished street-side sign for the 1954-vintage Lariat Lodge (a lariat is a rope lasso) on historic U.S. Route 66 in Gallup, a small city near the Arizona border in far-western New Mexico
The refurbished street-side sign for the 1954-vintage Lariat Lodge (a lariat is a rope lasso) on historic U.S. Route 66 in Gallup, a small city near the Arizona border in far-western New Mexico
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Gallup, New Mexico
Gallup, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallup, New Mexico. Clyde Trujillo, eighteen-year-old Indian worker who has been employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad car shops for four months
Gallup, New Mexico. Clyde Trujillo, eighteen-year-old Indian worker who has been employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad car shops for four months
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
A motel-like neon sign for a downtown parking lot, entitled "Parking Lot," in Gallup, a small city near the Arizona border in far-western New Mexico
A motel-like neon sign for a downtown parking lot, entitled "Parking Lot," in Gallup, a small city near the Arizona border in far-western New Mexico
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Thoreau, New Mexico. Section crew coming in after a day's work along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico
Thoreau, New Mexico. Section crew coming in after a day's work along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Every photograph of McKinley County

Fires near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gallup in 1996, burning about 23 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
10 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMENTMORE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Gallup: 5 unknowns, 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Uranium, Pumice. 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
Gallup Brick & Tile CoClayPast Producer
Hogback MineVanadium, UraniumPast Producer1950, 1951, 1960
Red Dog PitPumiceProducer
Twin ButtesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Car-Ball 13 Uran DepositUraniumUnknown
Hyde MineUraniumPast Producer
J & S EnterpriseStonePast Producer
Twin Buttes QuarryStoneProducerBasalt
Elkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gallup Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallup in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. 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
September 1997Flash FloodGallup1 killed, 1 hurtA 30-year man drowned while trying to cross the Hunters Point arroyo on Navajo Tribal lands southwest of Gallup. Two men and their vehicle became bogged in the arroyo. The survivor reported being hit by three waves of water and mud. The last wave separated the victim from the vehicle. His body was recovered 7 miles downstream.
September 1997Flash FloodGallup1 killedA 56-year old woman drowned near Ojo Encino after seeking shelter in a culvert from a rainstorm. The woman and a companion were swept from the culvert by runoff from locally heavy rain.
July 2002Flash FloodGallup$100,000One to two inches of rain from a slow moving thunderstorm caused wide spread street flooding in Gallup. Debris clogged city drainage which aggravated flooding in the older down town section. Water reached 18 to 24 inches deep in several business and two homes.
August 2013Flash FloodGallup$50,000Six inches of water flooded the ground floor of the McKinley County Juvenile Detention Center.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGallup$25,000A trailer home was overturned and destroyed by a microburst near the Springstead Trading Post.
August 2005Heavy RainGallup$15,000no account filed
September 2013Flash FloodGallup$5,000State EOC Situation Report #2 on the 11th indicated NM 118 was closed on the 10th due to flood waters, mud, and debris over roadway.
August 2011Flash FloodGallup$5,000Flash flooding occurred along Maloney Street between 1st and 6th streets. Several of these intersections were closed as water was halfway up vehicles. A few cars were stuck in the water.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGallup$1,000Microburst winds damaged the roof to a trailer in Gallup.
July 2022Flash FloodGallup-A video shared via Facebook showed flash flooding in the Gallup area. Area and timing is estimated via radar as video was made unavailable shortly after it was shared. No damages are known.
August 2016Flash FloodGallup-Flood waters 2 to 3 feet deep on Aztec Road between 8th and 10th streets.
September 1997Heavy RainGallup-Locally heavy rains produced considerable street flooding in Gallup. The Gallup Airport reported rainfall of 1.97 inches ending at 7AM September 9, for a new 24-hour daily record precipitation amount.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGallup-no account filed
October 2010HailGallup-no account filed
September 1997HailGallup-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
Allison2.3 miles15
Gibson (historical)2.7 miles15
Weaver (historical)3.1 miles15
Gamerco3.3 miles15
Heaton (historical)3.7 miles15
Rehoboth4.7 miles15
Red Rock5.1 miles15
Mentmore5.5 miles15

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 GallupAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577981The 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 902825. 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.