Sunland Park, New Mexico
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the South Doña Ana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88063. The Survey maps it on the Smeltertown quadrangle. 16,702 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,789 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSunland Park grew from 14,106 to 16,702 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 | 14,106 | |
| 2020 | 16,702 | +2,596 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1917 USGS Canutillo quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Canutillo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Smeltertown quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Smeltertown quadrangle1:24000
- 1996 USGS Smeltertown quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sunland Park: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Clay, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Mine and Mill | Clay, Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| International Hortense Mill Mine | Clay | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Courchesne Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Southwestern Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunland Park in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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 2006 | Flash Flood | Sunland Park | $20,000 | Excessive runoff overwhelmed a drain pipe which resulted in a mudslide in Sunland Park. Several homes were flooded, with a storage shed and part of a driveway washed away at one residence. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Sunland Park | - | Water depth reached to about 1.5 feet on streets near intersection of Calle Diaz and Calle Morocco. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Sunland Park | - | Major street flooding occurred in Sunland Park. |
| October 2002 | Hail | Sunland Park | - | A line of severe thunderstorms, including a low top supercell at the southern end of the line, moved rapidly eastward across southern Dona Ana County. Hailstones from one inch to an inch and a half in diameter fell from the supercell. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunland Park | - | A 66 mph wind gust was measured at the National Weather Service office in Santa Teresa. |
| October 2015 | Hail | Sunland Park | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Sunland Park | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Sunland Park | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunland Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunland Park | - | no account filed |
| October 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunland Park | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Sunland Park | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anapra | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Lizard | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Santa Teresa | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Orange | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Mastodon | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Strauss | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| La Union Vieja | 11.0 miles | 15 | |
| La Union | 11.5 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 Sunland Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1002908 | 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 920024. 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.
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.
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.









