Riverside, Eddy County, New Mexico

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Riverside, New Mexico
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Riverside
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Riverside
Riverside (the United States)
Coordinates: 32°50′10″N104°18′38″W / 32.83611°N 104.31056°W / 32.83611; -104.31056 Coordinates: 32°50′10″N104°18′38″W / 32.83611°N 104.31056°W / 32.83611; -104.31056
Country United States
State New Mexico
List of counties in New Mexico Eddy
Elevation
3,332 ft (1,015 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (MST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP codes
88210
Area code(s) 575

Riverside is an unincorporated community in Eddy County, New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. [1] It is located on the left bank (east side) of the Pecos River about five miles east of Artesia, New Mexico on U.S. Route 82 (Lovington Highway). [2] Riverside is in the Loco Hills Division of Eddy County. [3]

Eddy County, New Mexico County in the United States

Eddy County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 53,829. Its county seat and largest city is Carlsbad. The county was created in 1891 and later organized in 1892. It is north of the Texas state line.

New Mexico State of the United States of America

New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States of America; its capital and cultural center is Santa Fe, which was founded in 1610 as capital of Nuevo México, while its largest city is Albuquerque with its accompanying metropolitan area. It is one of the Mountain States and shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona; its other neighboring states are Oklahoma to the northeast, Texas to the east-southeast, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua to the south and Sonora to the southwest. With a population around two million, New Mexico is the 36th state by population. With a total area of 121,592 sq mi (314,920 km2), it is the fifth-largest and sixth-least densely populated of the 50 states. Due to their geographic locations, northern and eastern New Mexico exhibit a colder, alpine climate, while western and southern New Mexico exhibit a warmer, arid climate.

Pecos River river in the United States of America

The Pecos River originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, NM, at an elevation of over 12,000 feet (3,700 m) feet. The river flows for 926 miles (1,490 km) before reaching the Rio Grande near Del Rio. Its drainage basin encompasses about 44,300 square miles (115,000 km2).

The community of Riverside grew up in the 1970s as a place for oil workers' mobile homes and oil field support. [1] It was almost abandoned in the early 1980s, but came back in the 1990s as oil prices rose. Mack Energy Corporation has its corporate offices in Riverside. [4]

Mobile home prefabricated structure attached to a chassis

A mobile home is a prefabricated structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site. Used as permanent homes, or for holiday or temporary accommodation, they are left often permanently or semi-permanently in one place, but can be moved, and may be required to move from time to time for legal reasons.

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References

  1. 1 2 Julyan, Robert (1998). "Riverside (Eddy County)". The Place Names of New Mexico (revised ed.). Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. p.  300. ISBN   0-8263-1689-1.
  2. Spring Lake Quadrangle, Eddy County, New Mexico (Map) (photorevised 1975 ed.). 1:24,000. 7.5 minutes series (topographic). United States Geological Survey. 1975.
  3. "Loco Hills Division, NM Boundary Map". NM Hometown locator. Archived from the original on 30 June 2014.
  4. "Mack Energy constructs new headquarters". Artesia News. 6 May 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2014.