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.
Population over time
2 figuresNavajo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 281 | |
| 2020 | 253 | -28 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1889 USGS Largo quadrangle1:250000
- 1895 USGS Largo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Navajo Dam quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Pine River quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Navajo Dam quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Navajo Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
237 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 206 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Farmington Field Office | CLIFF |
| 5 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Farmington Field Office | LAKE 2 |
| 4 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Farmington Field Office | NEWBERRY |
| 30 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Farmington Field Office | LAST CHANCE |
| 3 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Farmington Field Office | NAVAJO CITY |
| 25 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Farmington Field Office | DRIP TANK |
| 21 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Farmington Field Office | PASS |
| 20 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Farmington Field Office | BALTZER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Heavy Rain | Navajo Dam | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Navajo Dam | $10,000 | There 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Navajo Dam | $5,000 | Heavy rains washed out 2 roads near Navajo Dam. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Navajo Dam | $3,000 | Two 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Navajo 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Navajo 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 2014 | Hail | Navajo Dam | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Navajo Dam | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Heavy Rain | Navajo Dam | - | no account filed |
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 Navajo Dam | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6038928 | 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 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.









