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Garfield, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Hatch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87936. It lies in Garfield Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Garfield quadrangle. 131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,104 feet above sea level.

Garfield within Doña Ana County

Population over time

2 figures

Garfield fell from 137 to 131 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
2010137
2020131-6 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Garfield between 1993 and 2019, burning about 222 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Natural1

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
5 July 1993Debris and open burning2.5 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeGARFIELD
16 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined95 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeGARFIELD
1 May 2006Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
27 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Cruces Field Office52
21 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeLEVEE
18 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSocorro DistrictHATCH
3 March 2009Debris and open burning100 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDAIRY
27 March 2011Smokingunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionI-25 MM 51

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Garfield: 8 occurrences, 8 unknowns, 6 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Calcium. 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
Esperanza ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, LeadOccurrenceFluorite, Galena
Nakaye MineFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, ManganesePast Producer1920, 1952
Red Star ClaimsBarium-Barite, CalciumPast Producer
AlamoFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
EsperanzaFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Esperanza ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Gar-SparFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Gar-Spar Group 1972Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Red StarFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Red Star Group 1973Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garfield in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2010Flash FloodGarfield$25,000Water was reported going over West Canal Road Bridge in Hatch. In the Rincon/Radium Springs area near Santiago Peak Road and Highway 185 flooding pushed cars off of road.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGarfield$10,000no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGarfield-The Truth or Consequences ASOS reported a peak wind gust of 59 mph from a thunderstorm outflow.
July 2013Flash FloodGarfield-Law enforcement reported Interstate 25 impassable between mile markers 51 and 54 even to fire trucks. Dona Ana Road had washout as well as road running straight south out of Hatch.

Every storm recorded in Doña Ana 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
Salem4.4 miles9
Placitas8.1 miles9
Hatch8.7 miles9
Rodey9.7 miles9
Hockett10.7 miles9
Angostura11.6 miles8
Rincon12.1 miles8
Grama12.3 miles8

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 GarfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5875399The 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 920600. 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.