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Catron County is the largest county, by area, in New Mexico. At almost 7,000 square miles (18,000 km 2 ), Catron County is larger than four states. With a population of only 3,400 people, the county is as sparsely populated as many an old West frontier area.
This is a locator map showing Catron County in New Mexico.. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps.Or see any of the New Mexico county locator maps: Bernalillo · Catron · Chaves · Cibola · Colfax · Curry · De Baca · Doña Ana · Eddy · Grant · Guadalupe · Harding · Hidalgo · Lea · Lincoln · Los Alamos · Luna ...
February 21, 1969. Mogollon, also called the Mogollon Historic District, is a former mining town located in the Mogollon Mountains in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. Located east of Glenwood and Alma, it was founded in the 1880s at the bottom of Silver Creek Canyon to support the gold and silver mines in the surrounding mountains.
Pie Town is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located along U.S. Highway 60 in Catron County, New Mexico. As of the 2010 census , it had a population of 186. [ 2 ] Pie Town's name comes from an early bakery that specialized in dried-apple pies, established by Clyde Norman in the early 1920s.
Quemado, New Mexico. / 34.33972°N 108.49833°W / 34.33972; -108.49833. Quemado is a census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 228. [ 4] Walter De Maria 's 1977 art installation, The Lightning Field, is between Quemado and Pie Town, New Mexico .
FIPS code. 35-62620. GNIS feature ID. 2413582 [1] Reserve is a village in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 289 as of the 2010 census, [4] down from 387 in 2000. It is the county seat of Catron County. [5] Currently the village has two grocery stores, a hardware store, a bar, fairgrounds, and a health clinic.
November 16, 1907. Designated NMSRCP. May 21, 1971. Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a U.S. National Monument created to protect Mogollon cliff dwellings in the Gila Wilderness on the headwaters of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico. The 533-acre (2.16 km 2) national monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt through ...
Old Horse Springs, New Mexico. / 33.92444°N 108.22778°W / 33.92444; -108.22778. Old Horse Springs is an unincorporated community in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. It is 20 miles northeast of Aragon and 20 miles west of Datil. To the west of Horse Springs is the Continental Divide, then South to the Plains of San Agustin .