Timberlake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley and Cibola counties, New Mexico, United States.

[3] The community is in a valley bordered by the Zuni Mountains to the northeast and The Hogback to the west, about 9 miles (14 km) north of Ramah.

It is 54 miles (87 km) by road southeast of Gallup, the McKinley county seat, and 62 miles (100 km) west of Grants, the Cibola county seat.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Timberlake CDP has an area of 16.0 square miles (41 km2), all land.

[1] Cebolla Creek flows through the community, leading southwest to the Rio Pescado, part of the Zuni River watershed continuing west to the Little Colorado River in Arizona.