Middle Mesa, NM

Middle Mesa is a census-designated place in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 200 residents. Middle Mesa was first listed as a CDP following the 2010 census, replacing the Young Place CDP. The CDP is in the extreme northeast corner of the county, bordered to the north by La Plata and Archuleta counties in Colorado. The short version is that Middle Mesa carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Middle Mesa: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Middle Mesa is to the west of Navajo Reservoir on the San Juan River.