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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.

Ramah within McKinley County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Ramah 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.

YearPeople Change
2000407
2010370-37 (-9%)
2020461+91 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

79 since 1992

Regional 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 burning37
Natural32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyBOWMEN
5 September 2000Natural3.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLION
29 September 2004Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresRamah Navajo Agency47
2 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionTIMBERLAKE
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRamah Navajo AgencyRT 133
7 August 2018Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestSUNFLOWER
26 August 1994Naturalunder an acreCibola National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2009Flash FloodRamah$5,000Heavy rain caused a vehicle to be washed away in an arroyo. Law enforcement discovered the vehicle unoccupied with keys in the ignition.
August 2008Flash FloodRamah$500Highway 53 was closed in both directions between mile markers 35 and 36. Water was up to one foot deep.
September 2009Flash FloodRamah-Four feet of water near the intersection of Mountain View Road and Highway 53 made the road impassible.

Every storm recorded in McKinley 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
Pescado5.1 miles14
Timberlake5.3 miles16
Lower Nutria10.0 miles16
Upper Nutria10.3 miles16
Page13.3 miles17
Black Rock16.2 miles15
Pinehaven16.7 miles16
McGaffey16.8 miles16

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 RamahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2522645The 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.