Bluewater, McKinley County, New Mexico

Census-designated place in New Mexico, United States

35°19′28″N 108°12′22″W / 35.32444°N 108.20611°W / 35.32444; -108.20611CountryUnited StatesStateNew MexicoCounty McKinleyArea

^[1]

• Total11.76 sq mi (30.46 km²) • Land11.76 sq mi (30.46 km²) • Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)Elevation

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7,461 ft (2,274 m)Population

(2020)^[3]

• Total174 • Density14.79/sq mi (5.71/km²)Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-6 (MDT)ZIP Code

87323 (Thoreau)

Area code505FIPS code35-08180GNIS feature ID2806710^[2]

Bluewater is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.^[2]

The community is on the southern edge of the county, bordered to the south by Cibola County. It is in the Las Tusas Valley and is bordered to the north by Cottonwood Creek, which flows east into Bluewater Lake, a reservoir on Bluewater Creek, which continues east to the Rio San Jose at Bluewater Village in Cibola County.

New Mexico State Road 612 (Bluewater Road) passes through the Bluewater CDP, leading northwest 8 miles (13 km) to Thoreau and Interstate 40.

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2020	174		—
U.S. Decennial Census^[4]^[3]

Education

It is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools.^[5]

It is zoned to Thoreau Elementary School, Thoreau Middle School, and Thoreau High School.^[6]

References

^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bluewater Census Designated Place". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ ^a ^b "Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: McKinley County, NM" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
^ "GMCS Address Lookup". Gallup-McKinley County Schools. Retrieved January 15, 2022. - KML files: Elementary boundaries and locations, Middle boundaries and locations, and High boundaries and locations.