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Twin Lakes, New Mexico

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Navajo Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87375. It lies near Gossip Hill. The Survey maps it on the Twin Lakes quadrangle. 1,004 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,375 feet above sea level.

Twin Lakes within McKinley County

Population over time

3 figures

Twin Lakes fell from 1,069 to 1,004 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
20001,069
20101,052-17 (-2%)
20201,004-48 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Twin Lakes between 2000 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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 burning4

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
17 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTWIN LAKES 1
29 May 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTWIN LAKES 1
4 April 2000Debris and open burning3.4 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTOHLAKAI1
24 December 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementRT9/491 JCT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Lakes in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 2 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
August 2022Flash FloodTwin Lakes-Heavy rain near Yah-Ta-Hey caused water to flow over State Route 264 at mile markers 9 through 10. Any damages are not known.
September 2013Flash FloodTwin Lakes-US 491 closed between Twin Lakes and Naschitti due to flooding. CR 5 bridge closed in Superman Canyon due to flooding from arroyo.

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
Yah-ta-hey5.6 miles13
Mexican Springs6.4 miles15
Nakaibito6.4 miles15
Rock Springs7.5 miles15
Brimhall Nizhoni8.0 miles13
Coyote Canyon9.3 miles13
Gamerco9.5 miles15
Heaton (historical)9.6 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 Twin LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q720758The 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 902375. 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.