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Cibola County
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county in New Mexico, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Mexico
- Founded
- June 19, 1981
- Named after
- Mythical Seven Cities of Cibola
- Seat
- Grants
- Largest city
- Grants
- Total
- 4,542 sq mi (11,760 km )
- Land
- 4,539 sq mi (11,760 km )
- Water
- 2.3 sq mi (6.0 km ) 0.05%
- Estimate 2025
- 26,807
- Density
- 6/sq mi (2.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- www .cibolacountynm .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Quivira and Cíbola
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New Mexico
- Contains
- Grants
- Capital
- Grants
- Population
- 27172
- Area
- 11756
- Shares border with
- Apache County
- Highest point
- Mount Taylor
- Official website
- www.co.cibola.nm.us
- Image
- Cibola County New Mexico Court House.jpg
- Households
- 8408
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- topic's main category
- Category:Cibola County, New Mexico
- Commons category
- Cibola County, New Mexico
- native label
- Cibola County
- water as percent of area
- 0.05
- inception
- 1981-00-00
- per capita income
- 20507
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Encyclopedic overview
Cibola County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,172. Its county seat is Grants. It is New Mexico's youngest county, and the third youngest county in the United States, created on June 19, 1981, from the westernmost four-fifths of the formerly much larger Valencia County.
Cibola County comprises the Grants, New Mexico Micropolitan Statistical Area. The county is a rich mining area with numerous Uranium mines.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cibola County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.