Southwest
New Mexico
McKinley

Thoreau

Thoreau is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 2,367 at the 2020 census, up from 1,865 in 2010.
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  • Type: Village with 1,870 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Dlo’oyazhi”, “Dloi Yazhi”, “Mitchell”, “Thoreau, New Mexico”, and “Thoreau, NM”
  • Postal code: 87323

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roy T. Herman’s Garage.

Photo: Bill Eichelberger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Roy T. Herman's Garage and Service Station, located in Thoreau, New Mexico on the former U.S. Route 66, what is now New Mexico State Road 122, about 150 yards west of an exit from Interstate 40, was built in 1935.

Thoreau

Latitude
35.40265° or 35° 24′ 10″ north
Longitude
-108.21979° or 108° 13′ 11″ west
Population
1,870
Elevation
7,142 feet (2,177 metres)
Open location code
857HCQ3J+33
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151825183
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5494395
Wiki­data ID
Q2891957
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Thoreau” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تروو، نیومكسيكو”
  • Catalan: “Thoreau”
  • Cebuano: “Thoreau”
  • Chechen: “Торо”
  • Chinese: “Thoreau”
  • Chinese: “索羅 (新墨西哥州)”
  • Chinese: “索羅”
  • Dutch: “Thoreau”
  • French: “Thoreau”
  • German: “Thoreau”
  • Gilaki: “ثوراو”
  • Irish: “Thoreau”
  • Italian: “Thoreau”
  • Kazakh: “Сориу”
  • Kirghiz: “Сориу”
  • Ladin: “Thoreau”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thoreau”
  • Navajo: “Dlǫ́ʼí Yázhí”
  • Persian: “تروو”
  • Polish: “Thoreau”
  • Portuguese: “Thoreau”
  • Serbian: “Тороу (Нови Мексико)”
  • Serbian: “Тороу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Thoreau, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Thoreau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تروو، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Thoreau”
  • Tatar: “Торо”
  • Ukrainian: “Торо”
  • Volapük: “Thoreau”

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