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Paguate, New Mexico

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Laguna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87040. The Survey maps it on the Seboyeta quadrangle. 474 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,148 feet above sea level.

Paguate within Cibola County

Population over time

2 figures

Paguate grew from 421 to 474 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
2010421
2020474+53 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Paguate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 14 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 burning24
Smoking17
Natural14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionSEBOY ROCKIE
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyLAVA
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyBIBO CREEK
16 August 2003Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyCANYON
11 August 1992Naturalunder an acreLaguna AgencyBEAR
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna AgencySOUTH
8 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreLaguna AgencyDG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Paguate: 11 unknowns, 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vanadium, Selenium, Molybdenum. 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
Paguate DepositsUranium, Vanadium, Selenium, MolybdenumPast Producer1956, 1981
Woodrow MineUranium, Vanadium, Copper, Lead, Barium-BaritePast Producer1951, 1953, 1956
Materials Pit 61-31-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials Pit 61-49-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
L-Bar DepositsUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1956, 1976
Saint Anthony MineUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1955, 1957, 1980
Alpine Miner Test AreaUraniumUnknown
H-1 MineUraniumProducer
Jj #1UraniumProducer
L-Bar Uranium Mill (Facility)UraniumProducer

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
Moquino2.4 miles18
Bibo2.5 miles19
Cebolletita2.6 miles19
Seboyeta4.3 miles19
Encinal4.8 miles18
Laguna7.0 miles18
New Laguna7.1 miles18
Piedra Lumbre7.4 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 PaguateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2046294The 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 928765. 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.