Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Otero County (Spanish: Condado de Otero) is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,839. [1] Its county seat is Alamogordo. [2] Its southern boundary is the Texas state line. It is named for Miguel Antonio Otero, the territorial governor when the county was created. [3]
Alamogordo (/ ˌ æ l ə m ə ˈ ɡ ɔːr d oʊ /) is a city in and the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States.A city in the Tularosa Basin of the Chihuahuan Desert, it is bordered on the east by the Sacramento Mountains and to the west by Holloman Air Force Base.
Weed is a hamlet and a census-designated place in Otero County, New Mexico, United States. It lies alongside New Mexico State Road 24 on the southeastern slopes of the Sacramento Mountains at an elevation of 7,215 ft. It has had a Post Office since 1885. [4] As of the 2010 census, its population was 63. [5]
Location of Otero County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Otero County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Otero County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
La Luz is a census-designated place (CDP) in Otero County, New Mexico, United States. [1] The population was 1,615 at the 2000 census.It is located immediately north of Alamogordo and lies in the eastern edge of the Tularosa Basin and on the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains.
The Tularosa Basin Museum of History, formerly the Tularosa Basin Historical Society Museum, is a history museum holding a collection of historical photographs, documents, and relics from Otero County, New Mexico. The museum is located in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and is owned and operated by the Tularosa Basin Historical Society.
Mescalero (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Mashgal) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Otero County, New Mexico, United States, located on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. The population was 1,338 at the 2010 census.
The Otero County area of New Mexico receives very little rain with an average yearly rainfall of just 11.6 inches (290 mm). [3] The fact that a perennially flowing stream of water passes through Dog Canyon made it an important location for settlement by Native Americans that lived in, and travelled through the Tularosa Basin .