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Beclabito, New Mexico

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shiprock-Sanostee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87420. It lies near Black Rock Point. The Survey maps it on the Beclabito quadrangle. 265 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,574 feet above sea level.

Beclabito within San Juan County

Population over time

3 figures

Beclabito fell from 339 to 265 between 2000 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
2000339
2010317-22 (-6%)
2020265-52 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Beclabito between 1998 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks1

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
22 August 2004Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementN. CARRIZO
1 July 1998Fireworks1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation Management8010-HWY12
21 June 2016Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCARRIZO
16 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBECLAHBITO 1
14 June 2016Debris and open burning12 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBECLABITO
13 June 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementFROGROCK
30 May 2019Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCARRIZO 1
19 May 2007Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSONSELA

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Beclabito: 18 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Vanadium, 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
Jim Lee No. 1 MineVanadium, UraniumPast ProducerCarnotite
Barton No 1UraniumOccurrence
Hoskey BartonUraniumPast Producer
Lone StarUraniumPast Producer
Rocky FlatsUraniumPast Producer
Unnamed Uranium DepositUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed Uranium DepositUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed Uranium DepositUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed Uranium DepositUraniumOccurrence
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Cudei12.9 miles20
Rattlesnake13.0 miles20
Shiprock18.0 miles19
Waterflow29.1 miles18
Sanostee29.8 miles19
Little Water31.4 miles20
Nenahnezad32.7 miles21
Tocito33.0 miles19

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 BeclabitoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3142101The 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 899530. 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.