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New Mexico has only three Interstate Highways: Interstate 10 travels southwest from the Arizona state line near Lordsburg to the area between Las Cruces and Anthony, near El Paso, Texas; Interstate 25 is a major north–south interstate highway starting from Las Cruces to the Colorado state line near Raton; and Interstate 40 is a major east ...
In 2023, New Mexico was producing about 1.8 million barrels per day (657 million barrels that year) of crude oil, 10 times more than it was producing in 2010, thanks to investments in new fracking ...
Map of the United States with New Mexico highlighted. New Mexico is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, New Mexico is the 15th least-populous state with 2,117,522 inhabitants but the 5th-largest by land area, spanning 121,298.15 square miles (314,160.8 km 2).
New Mexico and 12 other western states together account for 93% of all federally owned land in the U.S. Roughly one–third of the state, or 24.7 million of 77.8 million acres, is held by the U.S. government, the tenth-highest percentage in the country.
New Mexico: A History (U of Oklahoma Press, 2013) 384pp; Simmons, Marc. New Mexico: An Interpretive History, 221 pages, University of New Mexico Press 1988, ISBN 0-8263-1110-5, short introduction; Szasz, Ferenc M. Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth (2nd ed. 2006). Weber, David J. “The Spanish Borderlands, Historiography Redux.”
Sep. 23—Fall has arrived in New Mexico with a few familiar companions — red chile, apples and the flu — in tow. As the landscape transforms from green and brown hues to burnt oranges and ...
At least one person has been reported dead as a result of the fast-growing wildfires still burning in New Mexico, officials said Tuesday.. The state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency ...
Oil and gas production in New Mexico, 2010–2021 A New Mexico oil field, left, with crop circles on right, taken from the ISS in 2006. New Mexico is rich in fossil fuel and alternative energy resources. Major petroleum and natural gas deposits are located in the Permian Basin in southeast New Mexico and in the San Juan Basin in the northwest.