Otero County Place Names
Tom Bombaci, Jr. extracted this list of Otero County place names from New Mexico Place Names, by T. M. Pearce, 1965, University of New Mexico Press.
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| Alamogordo | Alvarado | Avis |
| Bent | Brice | Camp |
| Camp City | Carrizo | Cienaga |
| Cloudcroft | Cox Canyon | Crow Flat |
| Desert | Dog Canyon | Dog Town |
| Dunes | Elwood | Escondida |
| Fresnal | Fresnal Creek | Headquarters |
| Hereford | High Rolls | High Rolls-Mountain Park |
| Holloman | Holloman Air Force Base | Hueco |
| Jarilla | Jarilla Junction | Kearney |
| La Luz | Mahill | Marcia |
| Mayhill | Mescalero | Mescalero Apache Reservation |
| Monista | Monterrey | Mountain Park |
| Newman | Nuestra Señora de la Luz | Ohayse |
| Omlee | Opal | Oran |
| Orogrande | Parkers | Paxton |
| Pine Spring | Pinespring | Piñon |
| Pinto | Russia | Sacramento |
| Salinas | Shamrock | Sunspot |
| Three Rivers | Tularosa | Upper Peñasco |
| Valmont | Weed | West Tularosa |
| White Mountain | White Tail | Wooten |
| Wright |