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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 .
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 .
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]
Elephant Butte State Park is a New Mexico gem. On holiday weekends like Memorial Day, visitors have historically reached 100,000 on each day. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support ...
Elephant Butte is a summit in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It lies at an elevation of 6,361 feet (1,939 meters), on the Cowboy Rim of the Animas Mountains . [ 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 is a populated place on the southeast end of the Elephant Butte Reservoir in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. [1] 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.
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