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Montezuma is an unincorporated community in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. It is located approximately five miles northwest of the city of Las Vegas . The town was best known for many years for its natural hot springs, [ 2] and was in fact called "Los Ojos Calientes". [ 3] or "Las Vegas Hot Springs" until the late 19th century.
Las Vegas, often known simply as Vegas, is a city in and the county seat of San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. [ 6] Once two separate municipalities (one a city and the other a town), both were named Las Vegas: West Las Vegas ("Old Town") and East Las Vegas ("New Town"). They are separated by the Gallinas River and retain distinct ...
October 15, 1966. Designated NMSRCP. May 23, 1969. Fort Union National Monument is a unit of the United States National Park Service located 7.7 miles north of Watrous in Mora County, New Mexico. The site preserves the remains of three forts that were built starting in the 1850’s. Also visible at Fort Union and from the road leading to it are ...
Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre (136 km 2) United States National Monument near Los Alamos in Sandoval and Los Alamos counties, New Mexico. The monument preserves the homes and territory of the Ancestral Puebloans of a later era in the Southwest. Most of the pueblo structures date to two eras, dating between AD 1150 and 1600.
35-73540. GNIS feature ID. 2411919 [ 3] Website. www .socorronm .gov. Socorro ( / səˈkɔːroʊ /, sə-KOR-oh) is a city in Socorro County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is in the Rio Grande Valley at an elevation of 4,579 feet (1,396 m). In 2010 the population was 9,051. It is the county seat of Socorro County. [ 5]
Established. 1960 [ 1] Governing body. New Mexico State Parks Division. Storrie Lake State Park is a state park in New Mexico, United States, located 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Las Vegas, New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. [ 2] The land area of the park is only 81 acres (33 ha), however the lake itself has a surface area of ...
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot. The New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, which took place on February 2 and 3, 1980, at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken hostage.
Added to NRHP. March 19, 1987. The Acequia Madre, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, is a historic acequia which was built at the time of Las Vegas' settlement in 1835–36. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] It runs from the Gallinas River to the approximate intersection of S. Pacific and U.S. Route 85 in Las Vegas.