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Aztec
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city in and county seat of San Juan County, New Mexico, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- San Juan
- Total
- 17.15 sq mi (44.41 km )
- Land
- 17.06 sq mi (44.19 km )
- Water
- 0.085 sq mi (0.22 km )
- Elevation
- 5,820 ft (1,770 m)
- Density
- 363.4/sq mi (140.32/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00 ( MST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−06:00 ( MDT )
- Fips code
- 35-05780
- Website
- aztecnm.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Aztec
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- San Juan County
- Population
- 6201
- Area
- 0.220740
- Elevation
- 1721
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Body of water
- Animas River
- Capital of
- San Juan County
- Official website
- www.aztecnm.gov
- Image
- Aztec Public Library New Mexico.jpg
- Households
- 2654
- Dialing code
- 505
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- postal code
- 87410
- Commons category
- Aztec, New Mexico
- native label
- Aztec
- P8168
- Liebenstein
- water as percent of area
- 0.4982
- inception
- 1887-00-00
- per capita income
- 21535
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Aztec is a city in and the county seat of San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The city population was 6,126 as of the 2022 population estimate. The Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Aztec.
The city was the site of the Aztec, New Mexico crashed saucer hoax, and it was near the site of the unrelated Project Gasbuggy, an underground nuclear detonation managed by the Atomic Energy Commission.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aztec” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.