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Elephant Butte is a city in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States, located near Elephant Butte Reservoir and Elephant Butte Lake State Park. The population was 1,447 at the time of the 2020 census .
I-25 begins at I-10's exit 144 in Las Cruces (elevation 4,000 feet (1,200 m)), [3] just south of the New Mexico State University (NMSU) campus. I-25 is concurrent with US 85 at this point, and carries US 85 concurrently for the remainder of its run in New Mexico, save for a 4-mile (6.4 km) through Las Vegas where unsigned US 85 follows Interstate 25 Business (I-25 Bus., Business Loop 15 ...
Elephant Butte is a summit that is now in the Elephant Butte Reservoir and within the Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Sierra County, New Mexico. It has an elevation of 4,639 feet (1,414 m). [ 1 ] It was named for its shape, which is said to look like an elephant .
It should not be confused with the modern city of Elephant Butte, New Mexico that is on the west side of the reservoir to the northwest of this place. This site lies at an elevation of 4,465 feet (1,361 meters) and overlooks Elephant Butte to the north, the geographic feature that gives its name to all these locations. [1]
SH 178 at New Mexico–Texas state line 1991: current International crossing at Santa Teresa Port of Entry NM 137: 55.007: 88.525 New Mexico–Texas state line (north entrance to Guadalupe Mountains National Park) US 285 near Seven Rivers — — NM 138 — — Thompson Cone: NM 61 in Sherman — 1947 NM 138: 0.670: 1.078 Las Cruces: Las Cruces
Elephant Butte Chamber of Commerce Archived August 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine; Events for Truth or Consequences, Elephant Butte, and all of Sierra County; Wilson, John P., Between the River and the Mountains: A History of Early Settlement in Sierra County, New Mexico, Report #40, John P. Wilson, Las Cruces, New Mexico, August 1985
The park is the largest state park in New Mexico and surrounds the state's largest reservoir. [1] The 36,000-acre (150 km 2) reservoir, created in 1916 across the Rio Grande, is 40 miles (64 km) long with more than 200 miles (320 km) of shoreline. Elephant Butte Dam is named after a rock formation resembling an elephant. [2]
This is a list of properties and districts in New Mexico that are on the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 1,100 listings. There are more than 1,100 listings. Of these, 46 are National Historic Landmarks .