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Upper Fruitland, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Nenahnezad-Burnham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87416. It stands on Dain Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Kirtland quadrangle. 1,623 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,226 feet above sea level.

Upper Fruitland within San Juan County

Population over time

3 figures

Upper Fruitland fell from 1,664 to 1,623 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
20001,664
20101,662-2 (-0%)
20201,623-39 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

69 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Upper Fruitland between 1994 and 2020, burning about 596 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 were 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
8 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementUPPER FRUITLAND 8
8 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementN36 2ND LANE
6 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementUPPER FRUITLAND 2
5 July 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementOJO AMARILLO
4 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeWATER TANK
3 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementUPPER FRUITLAND 2
21 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeLA PLATA AND WEST MAIN ST.
16 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeHEAD CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Upper Fruitland: 7 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Arco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Eaton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Harper Hill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit 77-11-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No 72-10-NSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Kirtland2.7 miles20
Ojo Amarillo3.3 miles20
Fruitland4.6 miles21
Farmington5.1 miles18
Nenahnezad5.7 miles21
Totah Vista6.0 miles18
Waterflow9.4 miles18
Cottonwood11.7 miles18

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 Upper FruitlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2184712The 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 1852638. 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.