Pinehill, New Mexico
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Zuni-Ramah Navajo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87321. It lies near White Horse Draw. The Survey maps it on the Nicoll Lake quadrangle. 586 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,119 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPinehill grew from 88 to 586 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 | 88 | |
| 2020 | 586 | +498 (+566%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Nicoll Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Fence Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
70 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Pinehill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 743 acres in total. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ramah Navajo Agency | MILE MARKER 5 |
| 8 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Ramah Navajo Agency | DONFIRE |
| 30 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PINEHAVEN |
| 2 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Ramah Navajo Agency | WHITE ROCK |
| 17 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ramah Navajo Agency | FLAT TOP |
| 14 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | PITCHER |
| 13 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ramah Navajo Agency | DICKFIRE |
| 8 July 1992 | Natural | 10 acres | Gila National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Morro | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Sand Corner | 8.1 miles | 17 | |
| Pueblito | 9.6 miles | 17 | |
| Tinaja | 9.7 miles | 17 | |
| Sawyer | 15.1 miles | 17 | |
| Aragon | 16.6 miles | 17 | |
| Copperton | 17.2 miles | 17 | |
| Paxton Springs (historical) | 18.5 miles | 22 |
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 Pinehill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2066405 | 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 1852631. 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.





