San Mateo, NM

San Mateo is a census-designated place in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 139 residents. The community has a Catholic church, a Baptist church, a Morada, a cemetery, a Volunteer Fire Department and an old abandoned elementary school. San Mateo is also coined "the Uranium Capital of the World". San Mateo's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider New Mexico setting. The local scoop is how San Mateo's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. San Mateo is 25 miles from Grants. San Mateo overlooks Mount Taylor.