Bluewater is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 174.[3]

Geography

The community is on the southern edge of McKinley County and is 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.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 12.3 square miles (32 km2), all land.[1]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
2020174
U.S. Decennial Census[4][3]

Bluewater was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.[2]

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]

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