Bluewater Village is a

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in Cibola County,

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, United States. Its population in 2010 was 628.

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Bluewater Village is west of

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. The Bluewater Elementary School is located here. The Bluewater

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, which is included in the CDP, has a ZIP code of 87005. There was formerly a Navajo community at this location, and the area was called Agua Azul. The town was founded in 1880 as a stop on the A&P Railroad. Several Mormon settlers built an earthen dam and established a community nearby in 1896 named Mormontown. The railroad town faded, and Mormontown adopted the name Bluewater. Nearby was the former Bluewater Mill, a uranium mill operated by

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from 1954 to 1982. The site was reclaimed in 1995, under the provisions of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act, and is monitored by the

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Bluewater Mill and tailings impoundment site

Aerial photo of Bluewater Mill, 1971
Census-designated places in Cibola County, New Mexico Census-designated places in New Mexico {{NewMexico-geo-stub

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