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Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87034. It lies near Dinosaur Rock. The Survey maps it on the Acoma Pueblo quadrangle. 3,010 people lived here at the 2016 count. It stands 6,562 feet above sea level.

Acoma Pueblo within Cibola County

On record in Acoma Pueblo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Acoma Pueblo between 2000 and 2016, burning about 31 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyRAILROAD
20 September 2001Smokingunder an acreLaguna AgencySAND
19 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyTORIVIO
22 June 2016Natural13 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencyDIRT TANK
20 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyPORCUPINE2
20 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyPORCUPINE
17 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyOL ACOMA
22 May 2012Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencyACOMA VALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Acoma Pueblo: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gemstone, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AcomaGemstonePast ProducerSedimentary
Balo DepositUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Cibola County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Acoma Pueblo in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Acoma Pueblo-Tribal emergency management and trained spotters reported a small tornado producing a dusty ground circulation over open range land within Acoma Pueblo.
September 2017HailAcoma Pueblo-Nickel to quarter size hail at Acoma Pueblo.
September 2017Flash FloodAcoma Pueblo-Tribal police reported flooding along Acoma Creek.
September 2017Flash FloodAcoma Pueblo-Tribal police reported hail and flash flooding throughout Acoma Pueblo.

Every storm recorded in Cibola County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Acoma Village0.3 miles8
Seama10.3 miles18
Philadelphia10.5 miles18
West Village10.8 miles18
Alaska10.8 miles18
Acomita11.0 miles18
Harrisburg11.3 miles18
North Acomita Village11.5 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Acoma PuebloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q342057The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 928675. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.