BlockRock Springs, New Mexico
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Red Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87375. It stands on White Smoke Wash. The Survey maps it on the Gallup West quadrangle. 807 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,581 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresRock Springs grew from 558 to 807 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 | 558 | |
| 2010 | 567 | +9 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 807 | +240 (+42%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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 Gallup West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Gallup quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Rock Springs between 1999 and 2018, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | S-DIAMONDD |
| 7 July 2002 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SAGEBRUSH1 |
| 29 July 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | SAGEBRUSH1 |
| 15 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | HWY 264 MM14 |
| 19 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | WINCHESTER 2 |
| 16 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | WINCHESTER |
| 25 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | W. SAGEBRUSH |
| 12 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | HWY 264 MM#13 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rock Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Dog Pit | Pumice | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yah-ta-hey | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Gamerco | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Gibson (historical) | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Weaver (historical) | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Heaton (historical) | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Allison | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Mentmore | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Gallup | 7.3 miles | 15 |
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 Rock Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2669743 | 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 1852634. 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.