Ramah, New Mexico
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87321. It lies near Coal Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ramah quadrangle. 461 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,926 feet above sea level.
On record in Ramah
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
- Ashcroft-Merrill Historic Districtlisted 1990
- Evon Zartman Vogt Ranch Houselisted 1993
Population over time
3 figuresRamah grew from 407 to 461 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 407 | |
| 2010 | 370 | -37 (-9%) |
| 2020 | 461 | +91 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1886 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Ramah quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Zuni quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Ramah quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
79 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Ramah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 32 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 | 37 |
| Natural | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Zuni Agency | BOWMEN |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | 3.0 acres | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LION |
| 29 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 26 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ramah Navajo Agency | 47 |
| 2 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | TIMBERLAKE |
| 16 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ramah Navajo Agency | RT 133 |
| 7 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | SUNFLOWER |
| 26 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramah in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2009: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Ramah | $5,000 | Heavy rain caused a vehicle to be washed away in an arroyo. Law enforcement discovered the vehicle unoccupied with keys in the ignition. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Ramah | $500 | Highway 53 was closed in both directions between mile markers 35 and 36. Water was up to one foot deep. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Ramah | - | Four feet of water near the intersection of Mountain View Road and Highway 53 made the road impassible. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pescado | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Timberlake | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Lower Nutria | 10.0 miles | 16 | |
| Upper Nutria | 10.3 miles | 16 | |
| Page | 13.3 miles | 17 | |
| Black Rock | 16.2 miles | 15 | |
| Pinehaven | 16.7 miles | 16 | |
| McGaffey | 16.8 miles | 16 |
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 Ramah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2522645 | 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 909970. 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.









