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Ranchos de Taos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Taos County, New Mexico United States. The population was 2,390 at the time of the 2000 census . The historic district is the Ranchos de Taos Plaza , which includes the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church .
NM 240 begins at a signal–controlled intersection with NM 68 (Pasao Del Pueblo Sur) in the western part of the census-designated place of Ranchos De Taos, immediately north of the Ranchos De Taos Post Office. (NM 68 heads north into Taos to connect with the northern terminus NM 240 before ending at U.S. Route 64 [US 64].
Before Spanish colonialists settled in the Taos area in 1716, the area was home to Taos Native Americans who ranched and farmed in the area. [3] There was a Spanish settlement in the Ranchos de Taos area by 1742 [4] and there may have been residents of the Taos Pueblo who had farmed in the fertile area before that, in which case they sought the shelter of the Taos Pueblo during attacks by ...
David Benbennick made this map.; For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Or see any of the New Mexico county locator maps: Bernalillo · Catron · Chaves · Cibola · Colfax · Curry · De Baca · Doña Ana · Eddy · Grant · Guadalupe · Harding · Hidalgo · Lea · Lincoln · Los Alamos · Luna · McKinley · Mora · Otero · Quay · Rio Arriba · Roosevelt ...
Taos Valley mist in the morning, The Rio Pueblo de Taos, New Mexico. Taos Valley, also called Lower Taos Canyon, is a valley located in Taos County, New Mexico. [1] It is bounded by the Rio Grande Gorge; the deep ravine, or Arroyo Hondo, of the Rio Hondo; and the Taos Mountain range. [2] Included in the valley are Ranchos de Taos, the Taos ...
Southern terminus of NM 434 36.164: 58.200: NM 121 – Chacon: Southern terminus of NM 121: Taos 57.037: 91.792: NM 75 / High Road to Taos Scenic Byway – Penasco, Picuris, Pueblo: Eastern terminus of NM 75: Ranchos de Taos: 72.899: 117.320: NM 68 / High Road to Taos Scenic Byway ends – Santa Fe, Taos: Northern terminus
Taos (/ t aʊ s /) is a town in Taos County, in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo (the town's namesake) and Hispano ...
New Mexico State Road 68 (NM 68) is a 45.513-mile-long (73.246 km) state highway in northern New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. NM 68 is known as the "River Road to Taos", as its route follows the Rio Grande. A parallel route to the east is NM 76, which is called the "High Road to Taos".