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The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. (The land had previously been granted to Luis Mara Cabeza de Baca, whose family later received a settlement.) The town was laid ...
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]
The Las Vegas Paiute Tribe has a reservation, the Las Vegas Indian Colony, at 36°21′02″N 115°20′27″W in Clark County adjacent to the northwest corner of Las Vegas. The reservation was first established in 1911 and today is 3,850 acres (1,560 ha) large. In 1992, 52 tribal members lived on the reservation and 71 people were enrolled in ...
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 ...
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.
The population of the school has been steadily decreasing and the student population is an estimated 67 as of the beginning of the 2008–2009 school year. Wagon Mound Public Schools is working with Luna Community College in Las Vegas, New Mexico to provide students with opportunities for college credit.
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.
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.