Editing Black Rock, New Mexico (section)

==Geography==
Black Rock is located on the [[Zuni Indian Reservation|Zuñi Reservation]] on the left bank (south side) of the [[Zuñi River]], approximately {{convert|4|mi|0}} east of the town of [[Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico|Zuñi]], on the north side of [[New Mexico State Road 53|NM Route 53]].<ref name="topo-map">{{Cite map |year=1972 |title=Zuni Quadrangle, New Mexico&ndash;McKinley Co. (35108&ndash;A7&ndash;TF&ndash;024) |series=7.7 minute series (topographic) |scale=1:24,000 |publisher=United States geological Survey |url=http://sar.lanl.gov/topo_maps/35108/data/o35108a7.tif |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6QckHGz0Z?url=http://sar.lanl.gov/topo_maps/35108/data/o35108a7.tif |archive-date=26 June 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=26 June 2014 }}</ref> Immediately to the east of the community is the Black Rock Reservoir,<ref name="topo-map" /><ref name="USGS-2">{{Cite web|title=Geographic Names Information System (GNIS): Feature Detail Report for: Black Rock Reservoir|publisher=United States Geological Survey|date=13 November 1980|url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:3:31107745704313::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:898249,Black%20Rock%20Reservoir}}</ref> which was created in 1908 by damming the Zuni River.<ref name="Dodge">{{Cite book|last=Dodge |first=William A.|year=2010|title=Black Rock: A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|location=Jackson, Mississippi|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EPyfJXhddTAC&pg=PA181 181&ndash;182]|isbn=978-1-57806-993-4}}</ref> The dam has undergone serious rebuilding three times since 1908, the most recent in the mid-1990s.<ref name="Dodge" /> Black Rock has a non-commercial airstrip built just after [[World War II]], but not paved until 1970.<ref name="topo-map" /><ref>{{harvnb|Dodge|2010|p=179}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the Black Rock CDP has a total area of {{convert|1.80|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|1.75|sqmi|km2}} are land and {{convert|0.05|sqmi|km2|2}}, or 3.00%, are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2024"/> The Zuni River is a west-flowing tributary of the [[Little Colorado River]], which it joins near [[Hunt, Arizona]].