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Newcomb, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Shiprock-Sanostee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87455. The Survey maps it on the Newcomb quadrangle. 494 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,554 feet above sea level.

Newcomb within San Juan County

Population over time

3 figures

Newcomb grew from 387 to 494 between 2000 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
2000387
2010339-48 (-12%)
2020494+155 (+46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Newcomb between 2006 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHIWAY 491 MP61
2 June 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution4.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHWY 491 MP 55
22 May 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNEWCOMB 1
7 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBURNHAM
4 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNEWCOMB 1
4 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNEWCOMB 2
22 March 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNEWCOMB 1
14 March 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNEWCOMB 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newcomb in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 3 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
August 2022Flash FloodNewcomb$150,000Video shared on the social media platform Tik Tok showed impressive and devastating flash flooding near Sheep Springs. A massive wave of water near U.S. Highway 491 swept horse trailers, farm equipment, and lawn furniture downstream. Water overtopped the hoods of parked vehicles and inundated a few structures and residences. Damages are a rough estimate.
May 2009Flash FloodNewcomb$10,000Localized flash flooding reported 20 to 30 miles south of Shiprock on State Highway 491. Part of the road was washed out.
September 2003Flash FloodNewcomb-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
Two Grey Hills6.1 miles18
Tocito8.9 miles19
Sheep Springs9.8 miles18
Toadlena10.4 miles18
Little Water11.2 miles20
Sanostee13.1 miles19
Naschitti15.2 miles18
Crystal21.5 miles19

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 NewcombAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1983531The 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 902319. 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.