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Seama, New Mexico

18 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 87007. It lies near CaƱada de Cruz. The Survey maps it on the Cubero quadrangle. 478 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,978 feet above sea level.

Seama within Cibola County

Population over time

2 figures

Seama grew from 465 to 478 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
2010465
2020478+13 (+3%)

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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Seama between 1992 and 2020, burning about 663 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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 burning79
Smoking26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Fireworks11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Other causes2

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencySEMI
23 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna AgencyTRUCKER
9 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaguna AgencyINTERSTATE
29 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLaguna AgencyMIDNIGHT
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Seama: 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, 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
Bentonite DepositBentoniteUnknown
ParajeUraniumUnknown
Cubero Land Grant Association PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
San Fidel Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cibola County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seama in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2009: 2 flash flood. 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
September 2009Flash FloodSeama$5,000A home was damaged from excess runoff from the Rio San Jose.
August 2008Flash FloodSeama$2,000A portion of Indian Road was washed out.

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
Philadelphia0.7 miles18
New York1.3 miles18
Harrisburg1.3 miles18
Budville2.1 miles18
Acomita2.7 miles18
North Acomita Village2.7 miles18
Paraje2.8 miles18
Casa Blanca2.9 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 SeamaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2185659The 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 923687. 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.