Sundance, New Mexico


Sundance is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 760.

Geography

The community is in the western part of the county and is bordered to the northwest by Gallup, the county seat, to the northeast by Church Rock, and to the east by federal land associated with Fort Wingate. Interstate 40 passes through the northernmost part of Sundance, with the closest access from Exit 26, to the west in Gallup.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Sundance CDP has an area of, all land. The community slopes north toward the valley of the Puerco River, which runs west to join the Little Colorado River in Arizona.

Demographics

Sundance was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

Education

It is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools.