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www.lincolncountynm.gov: Lincoln County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,269. [2]
Location of Lincoln County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, New Mexico.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States.
Lincoln has numerous historic structures, nine of which are open to the public as museums operated by New Mexico Historic Sites.These include the Courthouse where Billy the Kid killed deputies James W. Bell and Bob Olinger, the Tunstall Store, the Convento, the Torreon and others.
There are 33 counties in the U.S. state of New Mexico.. The New Mexico Territory was organized in September 1850. The first nine counties in the territory to be created, in 1852, were Bernalillo, Doña Ana, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Ana, Santa Fe, Socorro, Taos, and Valencia Counties.
The Regulators were formed out of numerous small ranch owners and cowboys in the Lincoln, New Mexico area by 1876, before the Lincoln County War. [1] Many of those who became best known as "Regulators" had a long history with one another previously.
Burleson left Texas in 1873 as part of a Lacy-Coleman cattle drive along with Clay Allison and Davy Crockett, settling in Cimarron to raise cattle. [6] Burleson's wife, Mary Eunicia Chittenden Burleson (1862–1938), recalled that her husband came to Cimarron at the head of 1500 cattle and "settled on a place on the Red River, built a two-room log cabin and settled down to raising cattle."
Carrizozo is a town in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States.It is the county seat, with a population of 996 at the 2010 census. [4] Founded in 1899, the town provided the main railroad access for Lincoln County, and the town experienced significant population growth in the early decades of the 1900s.
The Lincoln County War was an Old West conflict between rival factions which began in 1878 in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, the predecessor of the state of New Mexico, and continued until 1881. [1]