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Fort Sumner is a village in and the county seat of De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,031 at the 2010 U.S. Census , [5] down from the figure of 1,249 recorded in 2000 . Fort Sumner is the spring and fall home of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility .
On October 31, 1862, Congress authorized the construction of Fort Sumner. General James Henry Carleton initially justified the fort as offering protection to settlers in the Pecos River valley from the Mescalero Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche. He also created the Bosque Redondo reservation, a 1,600-square-mile (4,100 km 2; 1,000,000-acre) [3] area ...
Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (September 14, 1818 – July 25, 1875) [1] was a mountain man, rancher, scout, and farmer who at one point owned more than 1,700,000 acres (6,900 km 2 ). Along with Thomas Catron and Ted Turner, Maxwell was one of the largest private landowners in United States history. In 1959, he was inducted into the Hall of Great ...
Army Airfields. Site history. Built. 1940-1944. In use. 1940-present. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in New Mexico for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of Fourth Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training ...
Two Mexican-American labor leaders and civil rights activists who worked on behalf of farm laborers across the country will be celebrated Saturday in Fort Worth. The Cesar Chavez Committee of ...
The De Baca County Courthouse, located on Ave. C in Fort Sumner, New Mexico within De Baca County, is a historic building built in 1930. It was designed by architects Kerr & Walsh and includes Colonial Revival and, more specifically, Georgian Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in ...
Scenic. ← NM 284. → NM 286. U.S. Route 285 ( US 285) is a north–south U.S. highway that runs from Sanderson, TX to Denver, CO. US 285 enters the state of New Mexico from Texas, into Eddy County, NM just south of Loving. The highway runs through the major cities of Carlsbad, Roswell, and Santa Fe. The highway exits the state into Colorado ...
NM 203 west – Lake Sumner, Sumner Lake State Park: Western terminus of NM 203: Fort Sumner: 0.0– 327.58: 0.0– 527.19: US 60 west – Vaughn: Northern end of US 60 overlap; direction signage changes from north-south to east-west; mileposts follow US 60: Taiban: 341.23: 549.16: NM 294 south: Northern terminus of NM 294: 342.06: 550.49: NM ...