| Official Name: | Jamestown, New Mexico |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community and Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | New Mexico#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Jamestown |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Mexico |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | McKinley |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 7.07 |
| Area Land Km2: | 7.07 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.73 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 2.73 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 317 |
| Population Density Km2: | 44.85 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 116.16 |
| Timezone: | Mountain (MST) |
| Utc Offset: | -7 |
| Timezone Dst: | MDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
| Elevation Ft: | 7041 |
| Coordinates: | 35.4694°N -108.4228°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 87347[2] |
| Area Code: | 505 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 35-35070 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2806723 |
Jamestown is an unincorporated community located along Interstate 40 in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States.
El Paso Natural Gas Company built a refinery at the Continental Divide in New Mexico around the area of 35.48698357712149, -108.4264608980443.[3] The refinery was known locally as the Gallup Refinery or the Ciniza Refinery. By 1964, El Paso Gas sold the refinery to the Shell Oil Company.[4] Then in 1982, Giant Oil Refining purchased the refinery from Shell.[4] In 1987. Giant built the largest truck stop and retail facility in their chain one mile south from the refinery.[4] On June 7, 2003, Giant sold its travel center in Jamestown to Pilot Travel Centers.[4] Pilot Travel Center #305[5] [6] houses Jamestown's post office; the post office has ZIP code 87347.[5]
According to USA Today, in 1993 the truck stop and refinery were the only two establishments in the community.[6] By 2020, there were also a Fire Department.[7] The oil refinery changed ownership several times[8] and was slated to close by October 2020, as per its last owner, Marathon Petrolueum.[9]
It is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools.[10] Its zoned schools are Del Norte Elementary School, Kennedy Middle School, and Hiroshi Miyamura High School.[11]