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Navajo Dam, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1980. It lies in ZIP code area 87419. It stands on Los Pinos River. The Survey maps it on the Navajo Dam quadrangle. 253 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,718 feet above sea level.

Navajo Dam within San Juan County

Population over time

2 figures

Navajo Dam fell from 281 to 253 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
2010281
2020253-28 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Navajo Dam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 206 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
Natural206
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeCLIFF
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeLAKE 2
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeNEWBERRY
30 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeLAST CHANCE
3 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeNAVAJO CITY
25 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeDRIP TANK
21 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficePASS
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeBALTZER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Navajo Dam in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 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
August 2003Heavy RainNavajo Dam1 hurtno account filed
July 2010Flash FloodNavajo Dam$10,000There was running water, rocks and a mudslide over State Road 511 between mile markers 3 and 7. One vehicle hit the rocks which ruptured its fuel tank.
July 2014Flash FloodNavajo Dam$5,000Heavy rains washed out 2 roads near Navajo Dam.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNavajo Dam$3,000Two utility poles were damaged at the Navajo Dam from strong winds. This was likely caused by a dry microburst ahead of storms moving in from the west.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNavajo Dam-The Raton Airport measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph, caused by nearby convective virga showers in the area. No lightning was observed the ASOS.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNavajo Dam-The NM Air Quality mesonet site northeast of Farmington reported a thunderstorm wind gust up to 58 mph. A large Cottonwood tree at a residence in Farmington was also partially blown down from high winds.
September 2014HailNavajo Dam-no account filed
September 1998HailNavajo Dam-no account filed
September 1997Heavy RainNavajo Dam-no account filed

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
Archuleta5.1 miles15
Alcatraz8.2 miles16
Turley8.7 miles16
Fivemile Crossing10.6 miles16
Blanco12.4 miles16
La Boca13.4 miles17
Angustura16.7 miles16
Sullivan17.1 miles16

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 Navajo DamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6038928The 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 938730. 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.

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.