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Fort Stanton, named for Captain Henry Stanton, was established to control the Mescalero Apaches.

Population –28,794 Elevation –3615 ft. Named for the family of James Hobbs which homesteaded here in 1907, Hobbs became first a trading...

Built in 1942, the Hobbs Army Airfield was primarily used to train pilots to operate B-17 Bomber planes.

Lea County Cowgirls Dessie Sawyer (1897–1990) & Fern Sawyer (1917–1993) Front of Marker Dessie Sawyer was a rancher, philanthropist and...

Early explorers compared this vast plain to the ocean, as its uninterrupted expanse stretches from the Canadian River south for 400 miles.

Population –9727 Elevation –3900 ft. Lovington is named after Robert Florence Love, who founded the town on his homestead in 1908.

A completion of the Discovery Well of the Hobbs Pool six miles south, Aprill 12, 1929, focuses attention upon the potential of New Mexico...

Southern part of Llano Estacado, Stockaded Plain, overlies prolific oil and gas geologic formations of Pennsylvanian and Permian age;...