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Waterflow, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Farmington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87421. It stands on Shumway Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Waterflow quadrangle. 1,554 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,062 feet above sea level.

Waterflow within San Juan County

Population over time

2 figures

Waterflow fell from 1,670 to 1,554 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
20101,670
20201,554-116 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

160 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Waterflow between 2001 and 2020, burning about 598 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 28 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 burning113
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNENAHNEZAD 3
2 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNENAHNEZAD 9
11 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSAN JUAN 5
3 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNENAHNEZAD 6
10 August 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNE MORGAN LAKE
7 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHOGBACK 4
6 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNENAHNEZAD 13
5 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSAN JUAN 5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Waterflow: 6 unknowns, 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Hogback ClaimsUraniumPast Producer
LookoutLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Caudell MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit 77-17-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit 78-28-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Richey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterflow in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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
May 2017HailWaterflow-Dime to quarter size hail reported near Fruitland and Nenahnezad.

Every storm 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
Nenahnezad3.7 miles21
Fruitland4.8 miles21
Kirtland6.7 miles20
Ojo Amarillo7.5 miles20
Cottonwood9.2 miles18
Upper Fruitland9.4 miles20
Shiprock11.0 miles19
Farmington14.1 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 WaterflowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7973991The 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 902386. 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.