Miami is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Colfax County,

New Mexico New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...

, United States. Miami lies on State Road 21 and is between

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and Sunny Side. The community includes approximately six homes and eight ranches. Miami is about southeast of the

Philmont Scout Ranch Philmont Scout Ranch is a ranch located in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States, near the village of Cimarron. Donated by oil baron Waite Phillips, the ranch is owned by Scouting America. It is a high adventure base where crews of Scouts ...

base camp, but is only about from the Rayado campsite. Miami was named by its founders after Miami, Ohio and was originally called Miami Ranch. Miami Lake, a private man-made reservoir, located just off State Road 21, six miles (10 km) due west of the community, was part of the Miami Project of the Farmers Development Company which purchased in the area in 1906.Twitchell, Ralph Emerson (1911) "Chapter II: Colfax County" ''The Leading Facts of New Mexican History Volume III'' Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
p. 90-91OCLC 3828708
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Miami, New Mexico via Google Maps
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