Lumberton is a census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States.

[5] The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad constructed its San Juan Extension through the area in 1882.

[6] About 1894 a lumberman, E.M. Biggs, bought 40 acres from a ranch owned by Francisco Lobato, and laid out the townsite, naming it for the sawmills which he built there.

[8] Biggs also built extensive logging railroads north and south, the last of which were removed by 1928 when the marketable timber had been exhausted.

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