Shillingburg

Ghost town · San Juan County, New Mexico

Dalton Pass quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1963, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Shillingburg is a ghost town in San Juan County, New Mexico. It is the only former community in San Juan County recorded on the federal names register, out of 177 across New Mexico.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Shillingburg as a historical populated place on the Dalton Pass topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 35.7078° N, 108.2848° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangle	Dalton Pass
Elevation	6,824 ft
Nearest living town	Crownpoint, NM
Distance to it	7.5 miles
GNIS feature ID	933010
Coordinates	35.70780, -108.28479

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What's there now

Shillingburg is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Crownpoint, NM (population 2,924), about 7.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 6,824 feet above sea level. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Heaton
ghost town · McKinley County · 26 mi
Weaver
ghost town · McKinley County · 26.9 mi
Gibson
ghost town · McKinley County · 27.5 mi
Gibson
ghost town · McKinley County · 27.6 mi
Paxton Springs
ghost town · Cibola County · 47.9 mi

Sources and licences

USGS Geographic Names Information System (Domestic Names) — GNIS Domestic Names, feature record (public-domain)
U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line and ACS — Census Gazetteer + ACS 5-year population (public-domain)

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.