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Capitan, NM Noise Levels

Capitan, NM: what the federal noise map shows

At Capitan, NM, road, rail and aircraft noise all fall below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's national map can distinguish from silence. Treat this as Capitan's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.

Where Capitan ranks

Capitan is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. By population, it ranks 8,957 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 1,409 people.

Your street may differ from Capitan's reading

For a single house or lot in Capitan rather than the town-wide figure above, BTS's own map is the same free source, queried directly.

See BTS's official National Transportation Noise Map

More on how this number was built

For exactly which federal dataset feeds Capitan's figure, see the methodology guide. The guide to reading a quiet result explains what "no measurable noise" actually means at Capitan.