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UTC−6 (MDT) Congressional district. 2nd. Website. 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] Its county seat is Carrizozo, [3] while its largest community is Ruidoso.
15 killed. 11 wounded. 8 killed. 12 wounded. 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] The feud became famous because of the participation of William H. Bonney ("Billy the Kid").
The village is located approximately 57 miles (92 km) west of Roswell in adjacent Chaves County (by road) and just north of the Lincoln National Forest. Lincoln is the primary community in zip code 88338, which had a population of 189 residents in the 2010 census.
Mar. 8—A Lincoln County man has died of plague, the first human case of the disease in New Mexico since 2021, state officials announced Friday. The man, whose identity has not been publicly ...
Known for. Instigator of the Lincoln County War. James Joseph Dolan (May 2, 1848 – February 6, 1898) was a Union Army veteran, Grand Army of the Republic member, Republican Party political boss, racketeer, Old West businessman and gunman, cattle baron, and a key figure in the Lincoln County War, in New Mexico, which launched Billy the Kid to ...
The Battle of Lincoln, New Mexico, so-called Five-Day Battle or Five-Day Siege, [1][2] was a five-day-long firefight between the Murphy-Dolan Faction and the Regulators that took place between July 15–19, 1878, in Lincoln, New Mexico. [3][4] It was the largest armed battle of the Lincoln County War in the New Mexico Territory.
Robert A. Widenmann's post-New Mexico career took him to Great Britain, where he visited Tunstall's family, and to Haverstraw, N.Y. where he died on April 13, 1930, at the age of 78. Doc Scurlock moved to Texas, where he became a respected citizen in both Potter County, Texas, and Eastland County, Texas, dying at the age of 79.
Lincoln looks much as it did during the Lincoln County War (1878–1881) when its single street was peopled with characters like Billy the Kid, John Chisum and Lawrence Murphy. Nestled in a valley between the Capitan and Sacramento Mountains of southcentral New Mexico, Lincoln was the scene of Billy the Kid's most famous escape in April 1881 ...