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On September 16, 2022, the building was engulfed by fire. [2] [3] [4] The fire was first reported at 3:48 PM and was extinguished by 5:00 PM. 36 fire engines and 280 firefighters from 17 stations responded. [3]
Organ Mountains. The 496,330-acre (200,860 ha) monument is located in the Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico, surrounding the city of Las Cruces in Doña Ana County.The protected area includes several mountain ranges of the Chihuahuan Desert.
Las Cruces (/ l ɑː s ˈ k r uː s ɪ s /; Spanish: [las 'kruses] lit. "the crosses") is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County.As of the 2020 census, its population was 111,385, [5] making Las Cruces the most populous city in both Doña Ana County and southern New Mexico. [6]
State Road 478 (NM 478) is a 24.342-mile-long (39.175 km) state highway located entirely within Doña Ana County, New Mexico.Starting in Anthony and ending in Las Cruces, NM 478 was once a section of historic US 80, a major transcontinental highway between San Diego, California and Savannah, Georgia.
The Organ Mountains are near the southern end of a long line of mountains on the east side of the Rio Grande's rift valley.The range is nearly contiguous with the San Andres Mountains to the north and the Franklin Mountains to the south, but is very different geologically: whereas the San Andres and Franklin Mountains are both formed from west-dipping fault blocks of mostly sedimentary strata ...
Bisti Badlands Sphinx(?) in Bisti Badlands More strange shapes in the Bisti Badlands. The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
Las Cruces Hot Springs issue on a hillside about 18 miles (29 km) west of San Marcos Hot Springs and 4 miles (6.4 km) northward from Gaviota railroad station on the coast. Four warm springs here furnish about 50 US gallons (190 L; 42 imp gal) a minute of mildly sulphureted water and in two of the springs inflammable gas rises.
The Apache Trail, originally running from the Mesa railhead to the dam site, was completed on September 3, 1905 at a cost of $551,000. [6] [7]