| Official Name: | Bluewater, New Mexico |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | New Mexico#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Bluewater |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Coordinates: | 35.3244°N -108.2061°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Mexico |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | McKinley |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 12.33 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 12.33 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 174 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 14.79 |
| Population Density Km2: | 5.71 |
| Timezone: | Mountain (MST) |
| Utc Offset: | -7 |
| Timezone Dst: | MDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
| Elevation Ft: | 7461 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code |
| Postal Code: | 87323 (Thoreau) |
| Area Code: | 505 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 35-08180 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2806710 |
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.[2]
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 8miles to Thoreau and Interstate 40.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of, all land.[1]
Bluewater was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
It is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools.[3]
It is zoned to Thoreau Elementary School, Thoreau Middle School, and Thoreau High School.[4]