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University Park, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Las Cruces census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88001. It stands on Tortugas Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Las Cruces quadrangle. 3,007 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,914 feet above sea level.

University Park within Doña Ana County

Population over time

2 figures

University Park fell from 4,192 to 3,007 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
20104,192
20203,007-1,185 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of University Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 101 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

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
2 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLEVEE
18 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.5 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeDEL RIO
12 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionDAM FIRE
3 April 2020Debris and open burning80 acresSocorro DistrictFOG
14 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLas Cruces Field OfficeMESILLA
14 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Cruces Field OfficeGLASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doña Ana County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of University Park: 10 past producers, 7 unknowns, 6 producers, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
Las Alturas Estates WellsGeothermalUnknown
Hoffer Mn ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Manganese NoManganeseOccurrence
Materials Pit 57-8-SStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Materials Pit 60-46-SStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
JonesFluorine-FluoriteUnknown
Jones and Santiago DepositFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
SantiagoFluorine-FluoriteUnknown

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names University Park in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 hail. 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
July 2025Flash FloodUniversity Park-A water rescue was reported at Dripping Springs Road and Camino Bonito.
July 2024Flash FloodUniversity Park-Social media video showed water running over Dripping Springs Road.
October 2022Flash FloodUniversity Park-A video was taken at the intersection of Superstition Drive and Remington Road showing flash flooding occurring. Small hail was also falling in the area.
August 2021Flash FloodUniversity Park-A truck needed to be rescued from flooded roads in Talavera.
May 2016HailUniversity Park-Quarter sized hail was completely covering the ground.
November 2016HailUniversity Park-no account filed
May 2012HailUniversity 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
Mesilla Park0.9 miles15
Tortugas0.9 miles15
Four Points2.1 miles15
Las Cruces2.4 miles15
San Pablo2.6 miles14
Mesilla2.7 miles15
Fairacres5.1 miles15
San Ysidro5.6 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 University ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2460069The 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 919985. 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.

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.