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Town name Other name(s) County Location Settled Abandoned Current status Remarks Alamocita: New Alamosa: Sierra: 1867: 1880: Submerged: Town was abandoned in 1880, due to change in the course of the Rio Grande, some ranches remained. Site was submerged by the Elephant Butte Reservoir. Aleman: Aleman Ranch: Sierra: 1868: 1875: Historic site
Oct. 26—Ranging from a haunted cemetery, a hotel with a chilling past, or ghost tours around the state, there are some very spooky places across New Mexico. To discover the scariest, we have ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) ... Pages in category "Ghost towns in New Mexico"
Dawson (also Mountview) is a ghost town in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States. [1] Dawson is located approximately 17 miles (27.4 km) northeast of Cimarron, and was the site of two separate coal mining disasters in 1913 and 1923. In 1950, the mines were closed, [2] and by 1954 the last residents had left and the post office closed. [3]
Steins is a ghost town in Stein's Pass of Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was originally called Stein's Pass after the nearby pass through the Peloncillo Mountains (Hidalgo County). [1] The pass was named after United States Army Major Enoch Steen, who camped nearby in 1856, as he explored the recently acquired Gadsden Purchase. [1]
Also known as the Quemado volcanic field, Red Hill is 24 kilometers east of the larger Springerville volcanic field and immediately south of the Zuni Salt Lake field. The area is made up of scoria cone and silicic dome fields [3] [4] The last eruption was 23,000 yrs B.P. [5]
Mowry City is a ghost town first in Doña Ana County, then Grant County and finally in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of Deming. Originally it was the crossing point of Cooke's Wagon Road on the Mimbres River.
Blackdom is a historic freedom colony in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States with a population of 300 at its height in 1908 that was founded by African-American settlers in 1901 and abandoned in the mid-1920s.