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Ojo Amarillo, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Nenahnezad-Burnham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87416. The Survey maps it on the Kirtland quadrangle. 696 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,410 feet above sea level.

Ojo Amarillo within San Juan County

Population over time

3 figures

Ojo Amarillo fell from 829 to 696 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
2000829
2010766-63 (-8%)
2020696-70 (-9%)

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

116 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Ojo Amarillo between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,016 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning84
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNENAHNEZAD 3
2 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNENAHNEZAD 9
31 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementREGION 2
3 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNENAHNEZAD 6
21 August 2019Arson/incendiarism4.1 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAPI 2
10 August 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNE MORGAN LAKE
8 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementUPPER FRUITLAND 8
8 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementN36 2ND LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ojo Amarillo: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. 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
LookoutLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Harper Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Richey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Kirtland2.9 miles20
Upper Fruitland3.3 miles20
Fruitland3.5 miles21
Nenahnezad3.9 miles21
Waterflow7.5 miles18
Farmington8.3 miles18
Totah Vista9.0 miles18
Cottonwood12.5 miles18

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 Ojo AmarilloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q258261The 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 1867387. 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.