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The McDonald Ranch House in the Oscura Mountains of Socorro County, New Mexico, was the location of assembly of the world's first nuclear weapon. The active components of the Trinity test "gadget", a plutonium Fat Man -type bomb similar to that later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, were assembled there on July 13, 1945.
The Bell Ranch is a historic ranch in Tucumcari, New Mexico, United States of America. Owned by John Malone since 2010, it is one of the largest privately owned ranches in the United States. [ 2] As of 2021, Malone is the second largest land owner in the country with 2.2 million acres. [ 3] The ranch became a national landmark in 1974.
505. FIPS code. 35-43930. GNIS feature ID. 2413568 [ 2] Website. losranchosnm .gov. Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, also known simply as "Los Ranchos", is a village in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The population was 6,024 at the time of the 2010 Census .
A former mining town that also once contained the only medical facility between Albuquerque and Gallup . Baldy Town. Baldy Mining Camp. Colfax. 1888. 1940. Historic site. The site is part of the Philmont Boy Scout Ranch. It has stone ruins, mill foundations, a chimney, mine tailings, and a smelter slag pile.
Valles Caldera National Preserve. Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a 13.7-mile (22.0 km) wide volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. [ 1] Hot springs, streams, fumaroles, natural gas seeps and volcanic domes dot the caldera floor landscape. [ 4]
Coordinates: 32°17′50″N 106°43′09″W. Museum main building. The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum is a 47-acre (190,000 m 2) interactive museum in Las Cruces, New Mexico, that chronicles the state’s 3,000-year history of farming and ranching. The museum is part of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Shiprock ( Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock" [ 4]) is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. Its peak elevation is 7,177 feet (2,188 m) above sea level. It is 10.75 miles (17.30 km) southwest of the town of Shiprock ...
v. t. e. There are 33 counties in the U.S. state of New Mexico . The New Mexico Territory was organized in September 1850. The first nine counties in the territory to be created, in 1852, were Bernalillo, Doña Ana, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Ana, Santa Fe, Socorro, Taos, and Valencia Counties. Mora County was created in 1860.