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Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. It is located about 78 miles (126 km) west of Albuquerque. The population was 9,163 at the 2020 Census. [5] It is the county seat of Cibola County. [6] Grants is located along the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways. [7]
Of the three, only Pajarito remains with a few buildings visible from I-25 a couple of miles south of Rowe, New Mexico. The grant never had any other communities and itself was sandwiched between the Pecos Pueblo Indian Grant on the north and The San Miguel del Bado Land Grant on the South.
The community of Las Trampas, New Mexico was founded the same year. The grant consisted of 28,132 acres (11,385 ha) of land on the western slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The settlers served as a buffer on the frontiers of New Mexico to fend off Comanche raids. By the mid 19th century the population of the grant area had grown to ...
People from Grants, New Mexico (12 P) Pages in category "Grants, New Mexico" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The Maxwell Land grant has an area of 1,714,765 acres (6,939.41 km 2) in New Mexico and southern Colorado.The grant lands measure almost 60 miles (97 km) from north to south and 50 miles (80 km) from east to west, reaching from the Great Plains to the crest of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Many land grants were also made by Mexico following its independence from Spain in 1821 [1] following the Mexican War of Independence. Many land grant claims were challenged after the United States took over the territory in 1846 and grantees in New Mexico eventually lost 98 percent of their land, mostly to Anglo speculators. Some achieved ...
Charley's Automotive Service, at 1310 W. Santa Fe Ave., is a roadside business and home complex on the former route of U.S. Route 66, in Grants, New Mexico. [2] It was listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties on February 19, 2010. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. [1]
The principal objectives of the land grants were to encourage the foundation of new communities and to expand the settled area on the frontiers of New Mexico for defense from Indian raids. After its conquest of New Mexico in 1846, the United States adjudicated the grants and confirmed 157 as valid.