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Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base , the facility is officially called Homey Airport ( ICAO : KXTA , FAA LID : XTA ) [ 2 ] or Groom Lake (after the salt flat next to its airfield).
The airport was Roswell Army Airfield during World War II, and Walker Air Force Base during the Cold War. When it closed it was the largest base of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command. Roswell Industrial Air Center was developed after the closure of Walker Air Force Base on June 30, 1967.
Rachel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 48. [3] As the closest settlement to the Nellis Air Force Range and Area 51, Rachel enjoys a modest celebrity status, particularly among aviation enthusiasts and UFO hunters.
Roswell (/ ˈ r ɒ z w ɛ l /) is a city in and the seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, United States. [6] The population was 48,422 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] making it the fifth-most populous city in New Mexico.
This article lists all airports in New Mexico (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Map of area codes for the state of New Mexico and bordering regions. The state of New Mexico is served by the following area codes: 505, which serves northwest New Mexico including Santa Fe and Albuquerque since 1947; 575, which serves eastern and southern New Mexico; split from 505 in 2007
The Spring River channel overflowed causing what the National Weather Service in Albuquerque described as "extreme flooding" in downtown Roswell and throughout the southeastern New Mexico town of ...
New Mexico State Road 2 runs through the center of the community, joining US 285 at the CDP's northwest corner and running southeast 15 miles (24 km) to Hagerman. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Midway CDP has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.4 km 2), all land. [4]