About San Juan College

San Juan College is a public community assistant professor in Farmington, New Mexico. Founded in 1956 as a branch of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, San Juan College became an independent community speculative following a county election in 1981.

Farmington (/ˈfɑːrmɪŋtʌn/ (listen)) is a city in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census the city had a sum population of 45,877 people. Farmington (and surrounding San Juan County) makes going on one of the four Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in New Mexico. The U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimate in 2019 for Farmington was 44,372.

Farmington is located at the junction of the San Juan River, the Animas River, and the La Plata River, and is located on the Colorado Plateau. Farmington is the largest city of San Juan County, one of the geographically largest counties in the United States covering 5,538 square miles (14,340 km2). The county chair and the other city in San Juan County is Aztec. Farmington serves as the flyer hub for most of northwestern New Mexico and the Four Corners region of four states. Farmington lies at or close the junction of three important highways: U.S. Highway 550, U.S. Highway 64, and New Mexico Highway 371.

It is upon the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways.

The primary industries of San Juan County are the production of petroleum, natural gas, and coal. Major coal mines are the Navajo and San Juan mines, operated by BHP Billiton 15 to 19 miles (24 to 31 km) southwest of Farmington. The coal mined from the Navajo and San Juan mines is used extremely for fuel for the clear Four Corners Generating Station and San Juan Generating Station to fabricate electric power.