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100 unusual facts about New Mexico


120 Lachesis

Photometric observations of this asteroid were made in early 2009 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

128895 Bright Spring

It is named after Bright Spring, an astronomy-themed essay written by a second-grade student from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1989 Virginia Slims of Albuquerque

The 1989 Virginia Slims of Albuquerque was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the United States that was part of Tier V of the 1989 WTA Tour.

200 Dynamene

Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2011 gave a light curve with a period of 37.394 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.10 ± 0.01 in magnitude.

2010 West Memphis police shootings

Kane served three days in jail near Carrizozo, New Mexico for driving without a license and concealing his identity.

35 Leukothea

Photometric observations of this asteroid from the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico during 2010 gave a light curve with a period of 31.900 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variability of 0.42 ± 0.04 in magnitude.

47 Aglaja

Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico during 2012 gave a light curve with a period of 13.175 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.09 ± 0.01 in magnitude.

74 Galatea

Photometric observations of this asteroid made during 2008 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico gave a light curve with a period of 17.270 ± 0.002 hours and a brightness variation of 0.08 ± 0.01 in magnitude.

Alamogordo Museum of History

It holds a bison trophy head, a collection of pottery from the La Luz Pottery Factory, and artifacts from prehistoric Native American tribes that were found in caves above Alamogordo.

Alan V. Tishman

They had Two daughters (Pat T. Hall of Santa Fe, New Mexico and Virginia Nina Tishman Alexander of New York City) as well as one son David Tishman, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Alvarado Transportation Center

19 ABQ RIDE routes stop in the ATC's northern complex, while the 66, 766, and 777 routes stop on 1st street and Central Ave. the SunVan paratransit service operated by ABQ RIDE, The New Mexico Park and Ride Turquoise Route that connects to Edgewood and Moriarty, and the Rio Metro Rail Runner shuttles also utilize bus bays in the northern complex.

Among the Dust of Thieves

The film dramatizes the days leading up to Fountain’s disappearance near White Sands, New Mexico and the first, unsuccessful investigation of his apparent murder by John C. Fraser of the Pinkerton Agency.

Ann Nolan Clark

However, in the early 1920s, she transferred to a job teaching Native American children how to read for the Tesuque pueblo people, which lasted for 25 years.

Anthony French

By 1944, Tube Alloys had been merged with the American Manhattan Project and he was sent to Los Alamos.

Basilica of San Albino

After the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1846, the town of Mesilla was established sometime around 1850 on the Mexican side of the newly established Mexican-American border, by refugees from former Mexican territory that had been ceded to the United States.

Battle of Embudo Pass

Following the Battle of Cañada, the local Pueblo Indians and New Mexicans retreated to Embudo, near present-day Dixon, New Mexico, where they made another stand in the narrow canyon south of the town.

Battle of Rio San Gabriel

Although Kearny had superior orders from the United States War Department, he had previously sent most of his troops back to Santa Fe, New Mexico, believing that the war in California had ended, and his remaining force sustained heavy losses in the United States defeat at the Battle of San Pasqual.

Benjamin Silliman, Jr.

He also reported very optimistically on the mines at Lake Valley, New Mexico, which were also money-losers for shareholders.

Black Beaver

When Captain Randolph B. Marcy escorted the first 500 emigrants from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Santa Fe during the gold rush days of 1849, he engaged Black Beaver as his guide.

Blue Range Wilderness

It is located on the western border of New Mexico where it adjoins the Blue Range Primitive Area of Arizona and west of U.S. Route 180 between Reserve and Glenwood.

Bolson tortoise

Four tortoises from the Appleton population were established at the Living Desert Museum in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Borderland Derby

The Borderland Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually early in the year at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico.

Boss Weeks

His parents met while his father was stationed at Fort Union, New Mexico as his mother's family was from nearby rural Mora County, New Mexico.

Branded Outlaw

Lee rides out in a hurry from Wyoming to Pecos, New Mexico only to find his father murdered and the family ranch burned to the ground.

C/2010 X1

Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is a long-period comet discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010, through remote control of the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

Cantonment Burgwin

Cantonment Burgwin (also known as Fort Burgwin) was a fort located at 10 miles (16 km) outside of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, United States, southeast of Ranchos De Taos.

Casas Grandes

Ruins similar to those of Casas Grandes exist near Gila and Salinas in New Mexico, and in Colorado.

Cedric Wright

While traveling through the Chama River valley near nightfall on November 1, 1941, they encountered a "fantastic scene", a church and cemetery near Hernandez, New Mexico, and pulled to the side of the road.

Charles Cyrus Kearns

He was the managing editor of the Las Vegas Daily Record in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 1900 and 1901 and of the Daily Record in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1901 and 1902.

Chimayó Cocktail

The Chimayó cocktail was created by Arturo Jaramillo, owner of the Rancho de Chimayó restaurant in Chimayó, New Mexico in 1965, the Chimayó Cocktail is a tequila and apple cider based drink.

Cimarron Solar Facility

The Cimarron Solar Facility is a 37 megawatt (MWp) (30 MW AC) photovoltaic solar generating facility in Colfax County, New Mexico, that uses thin film solar panels manufactured by First Solar.

Climax mine

Other molybdenum deposits in the region include the Questa mine in New Mexico, and the Henderson and Urad mines near Empire, Colorado.

Double H High Adventure Base

Double H High Adventure Base, located on the Plains of San Agustin near Datil, New Mexico, was a satellite program base of the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) Philmont Scout Ranch from 2004 to 2009.

Edgar Castillo

Edgar Eduardo Castillo Carrillo (born October 8, 1986, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States) is a Mexican-American association football player.

El Paso Subdivision

The track runs east of the Elephant Butte Reservoir and the resort town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico before descending a steep grade prior to passing through Rincon, New Mexico.

El Prado

El Prado, New Mexico, an unincorporated suburb of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, USA

Fairfax, California B-17 Crash

The plane, which carried the serial number of 44-85510, took off at 4 pm on May 15 from Clovis Army Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico.

Fort Cummings

Fort Cummings (1863–1873), (1880–1884 ), (1886) a former U. S. Army post located near Cooke's Springs, in Luna County, New Mexico.

Fort Naco

Subsequent to Pancho Villa’s attack on Columbus, New Mexico in 1916, Naco was a staging area for American troops protecting the border.

Frank Ferguson

In the story line, as Wallace visits Lincoln, New Mexico, Sheriff Garrett tries to keep down brawling in the cantina owned by Big Mamacita (Connie Gilchrist), who is the grandmother of the governor's young aide.

George Melendez Wright

Wright died in an automobile accident at the age of 31 near Deming, New Mexico, while serving on a commission establishing new parks along the Mexican border.

Georgelle Hirliman

Georgelle Cynthia Hirliman (June 11, 1936, Los Angeles, California – January 29, 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American writer and adopted daughter of Eleanor Hunt.

Gerry Parsky

Chairman Parsky oversaw the Regents’ governance of the University, including oversight and negotiations on behalf of the U.S. nuclear labs at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, student admissions, expansion of the U.C. Merced campus, as well as budget and fiscal issues, including pension plans for the faculty and staff.

Great Divide Mountain Bike Route

Antelope Wells, New Mexico is the most commonly known starting or finishing point of the Continental Divide trail, but due to its remote location devoid of any lodging or services, Columbus, New Mexico is an alternate starting or finishing point for those hiking or biking the Continental Divide trail.

Harold J. Ross

In 1962, Harold and his family relocated to White Sands, New Mexico, where Harold attended White Sands Elementary School.

Hispanicization

Laredo, Texas; Chimayo, New Mexico; and Nogales, Arizona, for example, all have Hispanic populations greater than 90 percent.

Horrell Brothers

On December 1, 1873, Sheriff Gylam and Ben Horrell rode into Lincoln, New Mexico and began drinking, visiting several brothels and saloons before discharging their firearms in the street while drunk.

Hugh Prosser

Prosser was killed in an automobile accident near Gallup, New Mexico, at the age of 52.

Isaac Slover

He was one of the first American trappers officially allowed into New Mexico, as part of the Glenn-Fowler Expedition of Hugh Glenn and Jacob Fowler.

He was one of the first trappers to take up formal residence at Taos, New Mexico.

Jemez River

A few miles to the south the Jemez River enters the Zia Indian Reservation and is joined by the Rio Salado, about four miles upstream from Zia Pueblo.

John Chisum

In 1866-67, Chisum formed a partnership with cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving to assemble and drive herds of cattle for sale to the Army in Fort Sumner and Santa Fe, New Mexico, to provide cattle to miners in Colorado as well as provide cattle to the Bell Ranch.

José Inés Salazar

A Federal jury in Santa Fe acquitted him of the smuggling charge in May 1914, but he was then taken to a detention camp at Fort Wingate, New Mexico to face charges of violating American neutrality laws.

Joseph Projectus Machebeuf

He served as pastor at Albuquerque (1853–1858) and at Santa Fe (1858–1860) before being transferred to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky Mountains and lamed for life.

Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid

Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1792, son of Domingo Vigil and María Francisca Alarid, both from military families.

KAPT

KAPT-LP, a low-power television station (channel 29) licensed to Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States

KISZ-FM

The station also has a low-power translator, K249DE in Durango, Colorado, and a booster, KISZ-FM1 in Farmington, New Mexico.

Las Humanas

Las Humanas, also known as Jumano Pueblo, was one of the Tompiro Indians Pubelos in the vicinity of the Manzano Mountains of New Mexico.

Lingo

Lingo, New Mexico, a populated place in Roosevelt County, New Mexico

Lisa Law

She and her husband, Tom Law, whom she met in 1965 at a Peter Paul & Mary concert in Berkeley, CA, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico for 12 years and had four children, Dhana Pilar, Solar Sat, Sunday Peaches & Jesse Lee Rainbow.

Lost Adams Diggings

Purcell believes that the gold exists and is perhaps somewhere in the mountains just south of Quemado, New Mexico.

Luis Tupatu

Later, in Santa Fe, Luis Tupatú was officially appointed governor of thirteen villages of Northern New Mexico.

Marsh Giddings

In January 1874 the best he could do was to offer a reward of $500 for the arrest of those cowboys who had shot up a Hispanic dance in Lincoln murdering four men, the seminal event starting the wars.

Mexican Revolution

In 1916, in retaliation for Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and the death of 16 United States citizens, President Wilson sent forces commanded by Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing into Mexico to capture Villa.

Milton Moore Snodgrass

Currently Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Morris Kight

From 1941 until 1958, Kight lived in northern New Mexico, where he and many other gay people were active in Adlai Stevenson's campaign in the 1952 presidential election.

Native American Preparatory School

The Native American Preparatory School was a residential preparatory school located in Rowe, New Mexico.

New Mexico State University Alamogordo

New Mexico State University Alamogordo (NMSU-A) is a two-year community college college located in Alamogordo, New Mexico and is accredited independently by North Central Association.

Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970

The first joint operating agreement was between Albuquerque Tribune (then the New Mexico State Tribune) and the Albuquerque Journal in Albuquerque, New Mexico, signed on February 20, 1933.

Nova Bus

The plant was used to produce the Classic model for sales in Canada, while GMC's Rapid Transit Series (RTS) product was moved to join MCI's own designs at Transportation Manufacturing Corporation in Roswell, New Mexico.

Peter Hurd

Many of Peter Hurd's works are set in Southeastern New Mexico, on his family's ranch in San Patricio and in the Hondo Valley.

Pinehill

Pinehill, New Mexico, a census-designated place in Cibola County, New Mexico

Piro Pueblos

Currently there is an archaeological excavation which is actively pursued annually in June and July, in a location near Luis Lopez, five miles south of present-day Socorro.

Prayers for the Assassin

Parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California have been claimed by the Aztlan Empire (formerly Mexico) and tension between the I.R. and A.E. have risen due to land claims.

Premiere Cinemas

Flagship megaplex Premiere Cinema locations are operated in Bryan-College Station, El Paso, Houston, and Temple, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Gadsden, Spanish Fort, and Bessemer, Alabama, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Presidio Chapel of San Elizario

The presidio was moved to the present site in 1790, to protect travelers and settlers along the Camino Real (Royal Highway) which ran from Mexico City through Paso del Norte to Santa Fe.

Protogygia comstocki

It is found in the White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico as well as the Hanford Central and Wahluke dunes in Washington.

Ralph E. Twitchell

He was prosecuting attorney for Santa Fe County and special counsel for the U.S. Department of the Interior dealing with Native American and water-rights cases.

Ralph Levy

Levy died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, exactly fifty years to the day after the premiere of I Love Lucy, the pilot of which he had directed, although it was never shown to the public until decades later.

Robert DePugh

He skipped bail and went underground for over a year until he was caught in 1969 in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Robin Bullough

Bullough travelled widely to facilitate collaboration, with regular visiting appointments and research visits to Copenhagen, Jyväskylä, Los Alamos, DTH Lyngby in Denmark, and Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Rocky Lara

Roxanne "Rocky" Lara is an attorney who formerly served on the Eddy County, New Mexico Commission.

Roger Sanders

Since then he has left the practice and is currently working part time at the Los Alamos Women's Clinic and the Taos Women's Health Institute as well as being Clinical Professor at New Mexico University and Research professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Rudolfo Anaya

Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya was born in the rural village of Pastura, New Mexico, to Martin and Rafaelita Anaya.

San Lorenzo, New Mexico

San Lorenzo, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, an unincorporated community in Rio Arriba County

Senecú

It may have also been within the proximity of the Black Mesa, which is near San Marcial.

Steven Kotler

He is best known for his non-fiction books, Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, and West of Jesus, and for co-founding the Rancho de Chihuahua dog sanctuary in Chimayo, New Mexico.

The Lord's Ranch

The Lord's Ranch is the name of an outreach ministry located in Vado, New Mexico, United States, that ministers heavily to the poor in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

The Round Up

The Round Up distributes and prints a weekly version of the newspaper every Tuesday to designated Round Up bins all over the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Tiguex War

It was fought in the winter of 1540-41 by the expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado against the twelve or thirteen pueblos of Tiwa Indians as well as other Puebloan tribes along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo, New Mexico, in what was called the Tiguex Province.

Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War

The Confederate territory of Arizona was proclaimed by Col. John Baylor after victories in the First Battle of Mesilla at Mesilla, New Mexico, and the capture of several Union forces.

U.S. Route 60

The road makes an arc through Catron County, with the apex at Quemado, avoiding Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest and Escondido Mountain.

UP Aerospace

The first launch of the SpaceLoft XL occurred on September 25, 2006 from Spaceport America in Upham, New Mexico.

Van Howard

Van was born into a musical family on a crisp, windy morning in Grady, New Mexico (36 miles north of Clovis, New Mexico), Van grew up on a 'dry land' farm during The Great Depression with his older brother & sister, learning responsibility at a young age.

Waldo, New Mexico

Waldo was at the junction of the AT&SF main east-west line and the Madrid spur.

Walter Chappell

Chappell moved to his final residence in the remote village of El Rito, New Mexico in 1987 and from there continued to exhibit, lecture, give workshops and make field trips.

Westbrook, Texas

Ralph W. Ramsey, Border Patrol Inspector, killed in the line of duty on February 26, 1942, in Columbus, New Mexico.

White Massacre

Along the way they stopped at Reyado where Kit Carson joined them, eventually leading them to the spot where the attack had occurred.

Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary

Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary (WSWS) is an animal sanctuary in Candy Kitchen, New Mexico, USA dedicated to rescuing and providing sanctuary for captive-bred wolves and wolfdogs.

William Bowers

William Bowers (Las Cruces, 1916 – Woodland Hills, California, 1987) was a reporter in Long Beach, California before becoming a screenwriter and specializing in writing comedy westerns and also turned out several thrillers.


Atrisco Heritage Academy High School

Atrisco Heritage High School (AHAHS) or better known simply as Atrisco Heritage, is a public senior high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, located the city's West Mesa.

Bryolymnia ensina

It occurs in coniferous forests from south-eastern Arizona (Huachuca Mountains) and south-western New Mexico (Pinos Altos Mountains) southward in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the State of Durango in Mexico.

Chris Eboch

She is the New Mexico Regional Advisor for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and a teacher for the Institute of Children's Literature.

Colognathus

Other finds of Colognathus were from places such as the Palo Duro Canyon (in western Texas) and the Santa Rosa Formation (in New Mexico).

Ed Lucero

He is known for making "first descents", including the former record 105 foot (32 M) Alexandra Falls in Canada's Northwest Territories, Guadelupe Falls in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, and Smith Falls in Idaho.

Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza

Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza was a Spanish soldier who served as governor of New Mexico from 1739 to 1743.

GBU-10 Paveway II

Raytheon production of the Paveway II is centered in Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.

Health Care Service Corporation

HCSC offers a wide variety of health and life insurance products and related services, through its operating divisions and subsidiaries; including Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and Dearborn National.

International Law Enforcement Academy

Presently, there are five ILEAs located around the world: ILEA Budapest in Hungary, ILEA Bangkok in Thailand, ILEA Gaborone in Botswana, ILEA Roswell in New Mexico, USA, and ILEA San Salvador in El Salvador.

Iván Castro

In 2008, he participated in the Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon in New Mexico, the Boston Marathon and the U.S. Air Force Marathon.

James Aloysius Griffin

In 1939 he joined Bishop John Mark Gannon and Monsignor Michael Joseph Ready in a visit to Mexico to confer with Archbishop Luis Martínez on a seminary founded in Las Vegas, New Mexico, to supply priests for the Mexican Church, since seminaries were at that time illegal in that country.

James Henry Carleton

After the Confederate threat to New Mexico seemed to have been eliminated, Canby and many of the Union forces were sent to the east; so, in late August, Carleton was placed in command of the Department of New Mexico.

John Wesley Garretson

John Wesley Garretson (19 May 1812 – 7 May 1895) was a surveyor who mapped large areas of Arkansas, New Mexico and Texas in the nineteenth century.

Kate Mann

She is originally from the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico but moved west as a young adult to pursue a career in music.

Languages of Texas

According to the University of Tampere atlas, the same Southwestern dialect is spoken in South and West Texas and southern California, extreme southern Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

Lewis Owings

Dr. Lewis Sumpter Owings (September 6, 1820-August 20, 1875) was a medical doctor and politician in the New Mexico and Arizona territories.

Lewisia

Lewisia nevadensis (A.Gray) B.L.Rob.: USA (Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico)

Linda Finch

The Lockheed Electra 10E, S/N 1015, N72GT used in the historic flight, as of early 2008, is registered in Cody, Wyoming, and hangared in New Mexico.

Loaf 'N Jug

As of 2008, there were 175 Loaf 'N Jug stores, primarily in Colorado and Wyoming with additional stores in Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

Luther Creek

Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Creek is the son of J. Fred Creek, a realtor from New Mexico, and his wife Patricia, originally of Indianapolis.

Menefee Shale

The Menefee Shale is a geological stratum underlying the Chaco Wash, which is located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of New Mexico, in what is now Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation

After the National Council moved its headquarters in 1979 from New Brunswick, New Jersey to Irving, Texas, the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico became the new home of the National Training Center.

Navajo AIDS Network

The Navajo AIDS Network (NAN) is a Chinle, Arizona-based HIV prevention and AIDS service organization for American Indians who reside within the Navajo Nation, located in western New Mexico and eastern Arizona.

Operation Have Horn

Have Horn was support and carried out by the Missile and Drone Division of the Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.

Orogrande, New Mexico

Orogrande is an unincorporated community in Otero County, New Mexico in the United States, located at latitude of 32.37111 and a longitude of -106.08389 in the Jarilla Mountains of the Tularosa Basin on U.S. 54 between El Paso, Texas and Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Physicians Health Choice

Founded by George M. Rapier III, MD, Physicians Health Choice evolved from WellMed Medical Management and offers health plans in Arkansas, Florida, New Mexico and Texas.

Ray Klebesadel

Ray Klebesadel is a scientist, now retired, who was a member of the gamma-ray astronomy group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico that discovered cosmic gamma-ray bursts using data from the Vela satellites, which were deployed by the United States after the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, to police the ban on nuclear tests in space.

Robert Allen Hale

A self-proclaimed devout Christian, Hale moved his family of 17 to Alaska from New Mexico in 1998 and kept them isolated from nearly all outside influences, including churches.

Rock pocket mouse

In 2003, scientists sampled DNA from both light- and dark-coloured rock pocket mice from areas in Pinacate Peaks, Mexico and New Mexico, USA.

Rose Gonzales

Rose Gonzales (1900? to 1989) was born in San Juan Pueblo in the U.S. state of New Mexico around the beginning of the 20th century.

The Turquoise Shop

This event coincides with the mysterious arrival of Pat Abbott, a handsomely rugged private investigator from San Francisco with hopes of pursuing an art career, while the shallow and snobbish Mona finds herself ostracized by her small New Mexico community of Santa Maria, including Jean Holly, the owner of The Turquoise Shop, after she had her own beautiful teenager daughter incarcerated by police.

Tim Willoughby

Having left Goldman Sachs in late 2007, Willoughby was due to start work at the firm of Citi Smith Barney on 10 January 2008, but died suddenly on 9 January 2008 after suffering a heart attack on board a flight from the United States to Singapore, returning home from a family holiday in New Mexico.

U.S. Route 85 in Texas

The route then follows I-10 and US 180 through the towns of Vinton and Anthony before crossing the New Mexico state line into the town of Anthony, NM in Doña Ana County.

Vehicle registration plates of New Mexico

The U.S. state of New Mexico first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1912.

Vernon Orlando Bailey

Bailey published 244 monographs and articles during his career with the USDA, and is best known for his biological surveys of Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oregon.

William Hayes Pope

Pope was the first judge appointed to the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, upon its creation in 1912 when New Mexico attained statehood.

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (also Tigua Pueblo) is a Puebloan Native American tribal entity in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas, comprising a formerly Southern Tiwa-speaking people who were displaced from New Mexico in 1680 and 1681 during the Pueblo Revolt against the Spaniards.