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Rockhound State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, located 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Deming. [1] It is named for the abundance of minerals in the area, and visitors can search for quartz crystals, geodes, jasper, perlite, and many other minerals. When the park opened in 1966, it was the first park in the United States to ...
Deming (/ ˈ d ɛ m ɪ ŋ /, DEM-ing) is a city in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, 60 miles (97 km) west of Las Cruces and 35 miles (56 km) north of the Mexican border. The population was 14,758 as of the 2020 census . [ 4 ]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,965 square miles (7,680 km 2), virtually all of which is land. [5] The bulk of the county is flat lowland, either grassland or desert scrub, but it also contains three mountain ranges: Cooke's Range in the north, the Florida Mountains on the southeastern side of Deming near the center of the county, and the Tres Hermanas ...
The armory served the New Mexico National Guard for 60 years. The building housed a chapter of the USO during World War II, in support of the men training at Deming Army Airfield. During the years that the building served as a military facility, it was also used as a community center for hosting dances, basketball games and other local events. [1]
New Mexico's other major center of population is in south-central area around Las Cruces, its second-largest city and the largest city in the southern region of the state. The Las Cruces metropolitan area includes roughly 214,000 residents, but with neighboring El Paso, Texas forms a combined statistical area numbering over 1 million.
The Florida Mountains are a small 12-mile (19 km) long, [1] mountain range in New Mexico. The mountains lie in southern Luna County about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Deming , and 20 miles (32 km) north of the state of Chihuahua , Mexico ; the range lies in the north of the Chihuahuan Desert region, and extreme southwestern New Mexico.
The river flows south from the Black Range, and the surface flow of the river dissipates in the desert north of Deming, but the river bed and storm drainage continue eastward, any permanent flow remaining underground. [3] [4] The Mimbres River Basin has an area of about 13,000 km² (5,140 mi²) and extends slightly into northern Chihuahua, Mexico.
Basins of the Rio Grande Rift Map of physiographic provinces of New Mexico. New Mexico is entirely landbound, with just 0.2% of the state covered with water, [1] and most of the state has an arid to semiarid climate. [2] Much of the state is mountainous, except for the easternmost Great Plains region. [3]