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Population – 10,385 Elevation – 3350 ft. Artesia, named for the area’s many artesian wells, lies on the route of the Pecos Valley cattle...

Native people have lived in this area for thousands of years.

These vast magnificent caverns contain over 21 miles of explored corridors.

These vast and magnificent caverns contain over 21 miles of explored corridors.

In 1590-91 Gaspar Castaño de Sosa, a Portuguese by birth, took an expedition up the Pecos River in an attempt to establish a colony in...

In 1590-91, Gaspar Castaño de Sosa led an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to establish a colony in New Mexico.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided employment for more than 50,000 young men in New Mexico during the Great Depression as...

Don Antonio de Espejo, leader of the third expedition to explore New Mexico, passed near here on his return to Mexico City in 1583.

On April 9, 1924, a well drilled at this site by the partnership of Thomas Flynn, Van Welch, and Martin Yates, Jr. struck oil.

This famous old cattle trail, running 2000 miles from Texas to Wyoming, was blazed in 1866 by Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving.

In July 1867 Oliver Loving, a partner in the Goodnight–Loving cattle concern, was attacked by Comanches while driving cattle to Fort Sumner.

The first nuclear detonation in the Plowshare Program, whose aim was to develop peaceful uses for nuclear explosions, was conducted 4.9...

Seven Rivers was located south of Artesia near the confluence of seven branches of a stream that flowed into the Pecos River.