The Lordsburg Hidalgo County Museum is located in Lordsburg, New Mexico. It features a World War II Internment and POW exhibit and a Hidalgo County Cattle Growers Association Hall of Fame Room. Other exhibits include mining, rocks and minerals, antique tools, area ranching heritage, bottles and railroads.
Coordinates: 32°20′51.2″N108°42′5.6″W / 32.347556°N 108.701556°W
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Hidalgo County is the southernmost county of the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,894. The county seat and largest city is Lordsburg. A bill creating Hidalgo from the southern part of Grant County was passed on February 25, 1919, taking effect at the beginning of 1920. The county was named for the town north of Mexico City where the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, which in turn was named for Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the priest who is known as the "Father of Mexican Independence". This county abuts the Mexican border.
Lordsburg is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 2,797 at the 2010 census, down from 3,379 in 2000.
Virden is a village in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 152 at the 2010 census. Growth and new construction is almost non-existent, but together with the Arizona sister-village of Duncan 7 miles (11 km) to the west, the consolidated area might experience minimal population and infrastructural growth in the next decade.
Western New Mexico University is a public university located in Silver City, in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It has served the people of the state and its surrounding areas as a comprehensive, regional, rural, public coeducational university since 1893 and caters to a student body diverse in age, culture, language and ethnic background.
Southwestern New Mexico is a region of the U.S. state of New Mexico commonly defined by Hidalgo County, Grant County, Catron County, Luna County, Doña Ana County, Sierra County, and Socorro County. Some important towns there are Lordsburg, Silver City, Deming, Las Cruces, Truth or Consequences, Socorro, Reserve, and Rodeo. Natural attractions there include White Sands National Monument, the Organ Mountains, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, and the Gila Wilderness surrounding the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. Southwestern New Mexico is also home to both the Very Large Array and White Sands Missile Range containing the Trinity Site.
The Museum of South Texas History is located in Edinburg, Texas. It features exhibits on the history of the Rio Grande Valley, as well as the rest of South Texas and Northern Mexico.
Animas is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in west-central Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States, in the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 237.
Rodeo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hidalgo County in the southwestern corner of New Mexico at 31°50′13″N109°01′54″W. It lies less than one mile from the border with Arizona on New Mexico State Highway 80. As of the 2010 census, the population of Rodeo was 101.
Stein's Peak Station, was one of the original stage stations of the Butterfield Overland Mail. Its ruins are still to be seen in Doubtful Canyon, at an elevation of 4652 feet, northeast of Stein's Peak in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Stein's Peak Station, was 35 miles (56 km) east of Apache Pass Station and 42 miles (68 km) west of Soldier's Farewell Stage Station. Later stations were located midway between these stations to provide water and changes of horse teams in the hot, arid climate. These were San Simon Station to the west and Mexican Springs Station to the east of Lordsburg, New Mexico.
Steins Creek, a Stream or Arroyo tributary to the San Simon River, that arises within an east-west running canyon, in Hidalgo County, New Mexico with its mouth in Cochise County, Arizona. This canyon provides the gap, called Stein's Pass, through which the railroad and Interstate 10 pass through the Peloncillo Mountains. Steins Creek has its source at 32°14′10″N108°59′43″W, and its mouth in the San Simon Valley, where its waters usually sink into the soil, short of any confluence with the San Simon River.
Burro Cienega, a stream that arises at an elevation of 5990 feet, at 32°28′48″N108°27′05″W, in the Big Burro Mountains, in Grant County and whose mouth is at 4196 feet at a playa about 5.5 miles southeast of Lordsburg in Hidalgo County, New Mexico.
Pyramid Peak, is the highest peak in the range of the Pyramid Mountains at 5,994 feet (1,827 m), in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Pyramid Peak is located 7.5 miles south of Lordsburg in the Pyramid Mountains. It has also been called Big Pyramid Mountain and North Pyramid Peak.
Cotton City is a census-designated place in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 388 as of the 2010 census. New Mexico State Road 338 passes through the community.
Glen Acres is a census-designated place in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 208 as of the 2010 census. The community is located along U.S. Route 70. The community's streets are named after golfers.
The Lordsburg-Hidalgo County Library is a public library located at 208 E. Third St. in Lordsburg, New Mexico. The Lordsburg Women's Club established Lordsburg's library in 1919; it originally operated out of spaces in other public buildings and houses. The Works Progress Administration built a permanent building for the library in 1936-37. The library building has a Pueblo Revival design with adobe walls and vigas supporting the roof. A New Deal-commissioned oil painting titled Landscape in Talpa, which was given to the library upon its opening, decorates the inside. The library currently has over 20,000 volumes and is one of two county-funded libraries in New Mexico.
Little Hatchet Mountains is a mountain range in Hidalgo and Grant Counties, New Mexico. The range trends north and south between Hatchita Valley to the east and Playas Valley to the west. Its tallest height is Hatchita Peak located at 31°50′30″N108°27′09″W at an elevation of 6,611 feet / 2,015 meters in Hidalgo County.
Railroad Wash is a seasonal stream or wash and a tributary of the Gila River. Its mouth is at its confluence with the Gila River, at an elevation of 3,839 feet / 1,170 meters. Its source is located at an elevation of 4,237 feet on the west side of the Summit Hills, in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, at 32°29′04″N108°59′12″W.
Summit Hills is a range of hills in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Its tallest summit is 4,862 feet / 1,482 meters at 32°30′19″N108°58′23″W.
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.
Walnut Creek is an intermittent stream in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It has its source in the Animas Mountains on the east slope of the Continental Divide at an elevation of 6,720 feet / 2,048 meters at 31°33′15″N108°41′37″W. Its mouth is located at an elevation of 4,524 feet / 1,379 meters where it subsides into the Playas Valley.