Otero County
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Places

1895 Rand McNally Atlas
New Mexico

1914

New Mexico
Cities and Roads
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Populated Places

Alamogordo (county seat)
Bent
Boles Acres
Chaparral
Cloudcroft
High Rolls

Holloman AFB
Hortonville
La Luz
Mayhill
Mescalero
Mountain Park

Newman
Orogrande
Piñon
Sacramento
Sunspot
Three Rivers

Timberon
Tularosa
Twin Forks
Weed

Ghost Towns

Brice
Cienega
Hilton
Monterey
Oro Grande
Sacramento City
Valmont

Geographical Place Names

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

Contributed by Tom Bombaci, Jr., extracted from New Mexico Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary, by T. M. Pearce, 1965, University of New Mexico Press.

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