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Acomita, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87034. It lies near Mesa Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cubero quadrangle.

Acomita within Cibola County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

Photographs

6 photographs, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Acomita, New Mexico. Brakeman R.E. Capsey repacking a journal box of a special car as the train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico waits on a siding
Acomita, New Mexico. Brakeman R.E. Capsey repacking a journal box of a special car as the train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico waits on a siding
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Acomita, New Mexico. Brakeman R.E. Capsey standing on the platform of the caboose waiting to hop off as the train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico pulls out to a siding
Acomita, New Mexico. Brakeman R.E. Capsey standing on the platform of the caboose waiting to hop off as the train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico pulls out to a siding
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Acomita, New Mexico. Landscape along the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad enroute to Gallup
Acomita, New Mexico. Landscape along the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad enroute to Gallup
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Acomita, New Mexico. A westbound Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad train enroute to Gallup
Acomita, New Mexico. A westbound Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad train enroute to Gallup
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Acomita, New Mexico. A westbound passenger train passing on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico
Acomita, New Mexico. A westbound passenger train passing on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Acomita, New Mexico. A double-header passenger train passing on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico
Acomita, New Mexico. A double-header passenger train passing on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Acomita between 1992 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were 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 burning101
Smoking13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Fireworks8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Natural1

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
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCANIPA
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna AgencyTRUCKER
9 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaguna AgencyINTERSTATE
29 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencySHINGLE
19 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaguna AgencyM/M 106
10 August 2009Debris and open burning2.3 acresLaguna AgencyFLOWER MTN.
7 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencySHOP
7 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLaguna AgencyYORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Acomita: 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cubero Land Grant Association PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Materials Pit 61-23-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 62-28-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
San Fidel Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Cibola County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Acomita in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 2 hail. 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 2018HailAcomita-Hail up to the size of golf balls five miles south of San Fidel.
July 2000HailAcomita-no account filed

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
West Village0.6 miles18
North Acomita Village0.6 miles18
Alaska1.3 miles18
San Fidel2.4 miles18
New York2.4 miles18
Acomita Lake2.5 miles18
Villa de Cubero2.6 miles18
Budville2.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122563870The 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 898714. 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.