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The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. (The land had previously been granted to Luis María Cabeza de Baca, whose family later received a settlement.) The town was ...
Rogers Administration Building: September 22, 1988 : National Ave., on the New Mexico Highlands University campus Las Vegas ... Off NM 65/104: Las Vegas: See also
New Mexico's other major center of population is in south-central area around Las Cruces, its second-largest city and the largest city in the southern region of the state. The Las Cruces metropolitan area includes roughly 214,000 residents, but with neighboring El Paso, Texas forms a combined statistical area numbering over 1 million.
Rank Name Image Height ft (m) Floors Year Coordinates Notes The Strat: 1,149 (350) 106 1996 Tallest observation tower in the United States, second-tallest in the Western Hemisphere after the CN Tower in Toronto; second-tallest free-standing structure in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River, after the Kennecott Smokestack in Utah; has been the tallest structure in Las Vegas since 1996.
Old Town Residential Historic District is a historic district dating back to 1840. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]The district plus the previously NRHP-listed Distrito de las Escuelas comprises the majority of the historic residential architecture of West Las Vegas, mostly adobe structures.
San Miguel County (Spanish: Condado de San Miguel) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,201. [1] Its county seat is Las Vegas. [2] San Miguel County comprises the Las Vegas Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area.
Montezuma is connected to Las Vegas, New Mexico by New Mexico State Road 65 and by San Miguel County Road A11A. State Road 65 crosses two bridges in Montezuma, the NM-65 over Hill Side bridge, and the NM-65 over Gallinas River bridge. [37] Both bridges were built in 1988. [37]
The Canadian Escarpment is part of the southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains, in the Las Vegas, New Mexico area. It straddles the boundary between the High Plains and Southern Rocky Mountain physiographic provinces, north of the Canadian River. [1] It is situated near the Las Vegas Plateau, which is bounded by the Sangre de Cristo ...