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Acomita Lake, 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 stands on Rinconada Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cubero quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,119 feet above sea level.

Acomita Lake within Cibola County

Population over time

2 figures

Acomita Lake fell from 416 to 339 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010416
2020339-77 (-19%)

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.

Fires near this place

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Acomita Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. 2 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 burning102
Smoking13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
29 September 2000Smokingunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCORNFIELD
29 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencySHINGLE
12 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyACOMA FD 16
10 August 2009Debris and open burning2.3 acresLaguna AgencyFLOWER MTN.
7 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLaguna AgencyYORK
5 July 2017Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouthern Pueblos AgencySANTA MARIA
5 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyJUNCTION32

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Acomita Lake: 8 producers, 4 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Basalt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crusher PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cubero Land Grant Association PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Materials Pit M-19581Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Pit 57-71-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 60-52-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 61-23-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 62-28-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit M1513cSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
San Fidel1.1 miles18
Alaska1.5 miles18
West Village2.1 miles18
Acomita2.5 miles18
North Acomita Village2.6 miles18
McCartys3.0 miles18
Villa de Cubero3.9 miles18
New York4.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Acomita LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q342064The 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 1867382. 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.