Miami is an unincorporated community in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States.
Miami lies on State Road 21 and is between Springer and Sunny Side. The community includes approximately six homes and eight ranches.
Miami is about southeast of the Philmont Scout Ranch base camp, but is only about from the Rayado campsite.
Miami was named by its founders after Miami, Ohio and was originally called Miami Ranch.Farmers Development Company (1907) Miami Ranch: Where is it? What is it? McGee Bros. (printers), Piqua, Ohio, Miami Lake, a private man-made reservoir,Price, Charles Ryan and Power, J. Clyde (1909) Irrigated Lands of United States, Canada and Mexico Pan-Pacific Press, Los Angeles, California, p. 124, located just off State Road 21, six miles (10 km) due west of the community, was part of the Miami Project of the Farmers Development Company which purchased in the area in 1906.State Engineer Office (1914) First Biennial Report of the State Engineer of New Mexico Santa Fe, NM, p. 60Twitchell, Ralph Emerson (1911) "Chapter II: Colfax County" The Leading Facts of New Mexican History Volume III Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, p. 90-91, OCLC 3828708
References
Further reading Stanley, Francis (1964) The Miami, New Mexico Story Pep, Texas
External links Miami, New Mexico via Google Maps