Census Data for Melena

As far as we can tell, Melena has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.

While we don't have census information for Melena, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:

• Roswell
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Roswell is located in Chaves County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roswell
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• Dexter
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Dexter is located in Chaves County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dexter
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dexter <1>
• Hagerman
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Hagerman is located in Chaves County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerman
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hagerman <1>

Chaves County ...

Melena is located in Chaves County<2>.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Chaves County.

Miscellaneous Information for Melena ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Chaves County or the community of Melena:

• The GNIS Codes ...
  • The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Melena:
  • GNIS ID for Melena: 899764
  • GNIS ID for Chaves County: 1702364
  • GNIS ID for State of New Mexico: 897535

• The FIPS Codes ...
  • An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
  • State Code: 35 (New Mexico)
  • County Code: 005 (Chaves County)
  • Place Code: 47500 (Melena)
  • State & County Code: 35/005 (New Mexico / Chaves County)
  • State & Place Code: 35/47500 (New Mexico / Melena)

• Misc. Census Codes ...
  • Melena is located in Census Region #4 (the West Region) and Division #8 (the Mountain Division).

For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Melena.