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.
Population over time
2 figuresGarfield 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 137 | |
| 2020 | 131 | -6 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Las Cruces quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Hatch quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Garfield quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
11 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | GARFIELD |
| 16 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 95 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | GARFIELD |
| 1 May 2006 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 27 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Las Cruces Field Office | 52 |
| 21 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Las Cruces Field Office | LEVEE |
| 18 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Socorro District | HATCH |
| 3 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | DAIRY |
| 27 March 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | I-25 MM 51 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 24 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esperanza Prospect | Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead | Occurrence | Fluorite, Galena | |
| Nakaye Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Manganese | Past Producer | 1920, 1952 | |
| Red Star Claims | Barium-Barite, Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Alamo | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Esperanza | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Esperanza Prospect | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Gar-Spar | Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | ||
| Gar-Spar Group 1972 | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Fluorite | |
| Red Star | Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | ||
| Red Star Group 1973 | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Fluorite |
Storms near this place
4 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Garfield | $25,000 | Water 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garfield | - | The Truth or Consequences ASOS reported a peak wind gust of 59 mph from a thunderstorm outflow. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Garfield | - | 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. |
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.
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 Garfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5875399 | The 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.




