Lumberton, NM

Lumberton is a census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 70 residents. U.S. Route 64 passes through the community. Lumberton is zoned to Dulce Independent Schools. Lumberton's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider New Mexico setting. The local scoop is how Lumberton's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad constructed its San Juan Extension through the area in 1882. Biggs, bought 40 acres from a ranch owned by Francisco Lobato, and laid out the townsite, naming it for the sawmills which he built there.