Timberon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Otero County, New Mexico, United States, and is within the Sacramento Mountains at the southern edge of the Lincoln National Forest.

Timberon has a nine-hole golf course, as well as a lodge, a pool, a church, an airstrip and a volunteer fire department.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 20.2 square miles (52 km2), all land.

The land that now constitutes the community of Timberon was purchased from the State of New Mexico in 1933 by Judge Paul Moss.

In the 1960s the land was owned by Willie Farah, of El Paso, Texas who built an airstrip there.

The volunteer fire department was begun in 1974, the firehouse was completed in 1981 and the post office opened that same year.

[6] In July 2016 a fire destroyed almost eighty structures, including forty-four homes in Timberon.

About 2.9% of families and 9.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under the age of eighteen and 4.9% of those 65 or over.

[13] In the 1970s children were bussed to the elementary school in Weed, New Mexico, but because of the difficulties of winter travel, an elementary school was established in December 1980 that operated just during the three winter months.