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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.

Sunland Park within Doña Ana County

Population over time

2 figures

Sunland 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.

YearPeople Change
201014,106
202016,702+2,596 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eagle Mine and MillClay, Limestone, GeneralProducer
International Hortense Mill MineClayProducerSedimentary
Courchesne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Southwestern Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2006Flash FloodSunland Park$20,000Excessive 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 2018Flash FloodSunland Park-Water depth reached to about 1.5 feet on streets near intersection of Calle Diaz and Calle Morocco.
September 2007Flash FloodSunland Park-Major street flooding occurred in Sunland Park.
October 2002HailSunland 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 2000Thunderstorm WindSunland Park-A 66 mph wind gust was measured at the National Weather Service office in Santa Teresa.
October 2015HailSunland Park-no account filed
May 2007HailSunland Park-no account filed
September 2004HailSunland Park-no account filed
September 2004Thunderstorm WindSunland Park-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSunland Park-no account filed
October 2003Thunderstorm WindSunland Park-no account filed
August 2000HailSunland Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doña Ana 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
Anapra1.2 miles18
Lizard3.1 miles14
Santa Teresa5.2 miles14
Orange5.3 miles14
Mastodon6.4 miles14
Strauss7.8 miles14
La Union Vieja11.0 miles15
La Union11.5 miles15

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1002908The 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.