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Rio Rancho Estates is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [3] The CDP is in the southern part of the county, bordered to the east and south by the city of Rio Rancho.
Sandoval County was created in 1903 from the northern part of Bernalillo County.Its name comes from one of the large land-holding Spanish families in the area. The original county seat was Corrales, but it was moved to Bernalillo in 1905.
Rio Rancho Estates in 1970, with the Sandia Mountains in the background. The great majority of the territory of Rio Rancho was originally part of the Town of Alameda Grant, which was founded by Spanish colonial settlers in 1710. It was acquired by the United States in 1848, after it defeated Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
The town of Atrisco was on the west bank of the Rio Grande River. By 1760, two hundred people lived in Atrisco and a second village, San Ignacio, was established on the Rio Puerco. The grant area is now in the metropolitan area of Albuquerque. Grant heirs have formed a private corporation to manage development of the remaining grant lands. [22]
The first pueblos in the area appeared between one and 600 A.D., established by the Tiwas (called Tigua by the Spaniards), [5] and by 1,200 AD there were already 14 major sites along the Rio Grande from Algodones to Isleta, the Chamisal Site in present-day Los Ranchos being among the largest of these communities.
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Rio Rancho Public Schools is a school district based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States. Rio Rancho Public Schools serves the municipality of Rio Rancho. The school district has a total of 18 schools. The district has two high schools, two alternative high schools, four middle schools, 10 elementary schools, and one preschool.
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