The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of New Mexico:

New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

– U.S. state

U.S. state

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 located in the southwest

Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...

 region of the United States

United States

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. It is the state with the highest percentage of Hispanic

Hispanic and Latino Americans

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s, including descendants of Spanish colonists and recent immigrants from Latin America. Congress

United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

 admitted New Mexico as the 47th state in the Union on January 6, 1912.

General reference

• Names
  • Common name: New Mexico
    New Mexico
    New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
    
    
    • Pronunciation:
  • Official name: State of New Mexico
  • Abbreviations and name codes
    • Postal symbol: NM
    • ISO 3166-2 code: US-NM
    • Internet
      Internet
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       second-level domain
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      : .nm.us
  • Nicknames
    • Cactus
      Cactus
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       State
    • The Colorful State
    • Land of Enchantment (currently used on license plates
      Vehicle registration plates of New Mexico
      The U.S. state of New Mexico first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1912.-Passenger baseplates 1988 to present:-External links:*...
      
      )
    • Land of Sunshine (predates "Land of Enchantment"; this earlier nickname highlighted the large percentage of sunshine received statewide)
    • New Andalusia
      Andalusia
      Andalusia is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities of Spain. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a nationality of Spain. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Huelva, Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba, Málaga, Jaén, Granada and...
      
      
    • The Outer Space State
    • The Spanish State
• Adjectivals
  • New Mexico
    New Mexico
    New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
    
    
  • New Mexican
    New Mexican
    New Mexican may refer to:* A person from the U.S. state of New Mexico; see List of people from New Mexico* The Santa Fe New Mexican, a newspaper published in Santa Fe, New MexicoNew Mexican may refer to:...
    
    
• Demonym: New Mexican
  New Mexican
  New Mexican may refer to:* A person from the U.S. state of New Mexico; see List of people from New Mexico* The Santa Fe New Mexican, a newspaper published in Santa Fe, New MexicoNew Mexican may refer to:...
  
  

Geography of New Mexico

Main article: Geography of New Mexico

• New Mexico is: a U.S. state
  U.S. state
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  , a federal state of the United States of America
• Location
  • Northern hemisphere
    Northern Hemisphere
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  • Western hemisphere
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    • Americas
      Americas
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      • North America
        North America
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        • Anglo America
        • Northern America
          Northern America
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          • United States of America
            • Contiguous United States
              Contiguous United States
              The contiguous United States are the 48 U.S. states on the continent of North America that are south of Canada and north of Mexico, plus the District of Columbia....
              
              
              • Western United States
                Western United States
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                • Mountain West United States
                • Southwestern United States
                  Southwestern United States
                  The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...
                  
                  
• Population of New Mexico: 2,059,179 (2010 U.S. Census)
• Area of New Mexico:
• Atlas of New Mexico

Places in New Mexico

• Historic places in New Mexico
  • Ghost towns in New Mexico
  • National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in New Mexico
    • Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico
• National Natural Landmarks in New Mexico
• National parks in New Mexico
• State parks in New Mexico

Environment of New Mexico

• Climate of New Mexico
• Superfund sites in New Mexico
• Wildlife of New Mexico
  • Fauna of New Mexico
    • Birds of New Mexico

Natural geographic features of New Mexico

• Mountain ranges of New Mexico
• Rivers of New Mexico
• Valleys of New Mexico

Regions of New Mexico

• Central New Mexico
  Central New Mexico
  Central New Mexico is the central region of the U.S. state of New Mexico. In the center of this region is Albuquerque, New Mexico, the largest city in the state.- External links :*...
  
  
• Eastern New Mexico
  Eastern New Mexico
  Eastern New Mexico is a region of the U.S. state of New Mexico. The region is sometimes termed the "High Plains" or even "Little Texas". The region is largely coterminous with the Llano Estacado. Eastern New Mexico is generally located at an altitude of over 4,000 feet and is mostly characterized...
  
  
• Northern New Mexico
  Northern New Mexico
  Northern New Mexico may simply mean the northern part of New Mexico, but in cultural terms it usually means the area of heavy Spanish settlement in the north-central part....
  
  
• Southern New Mexico
  • Southwestern New Mexico
    Southwestern New Mexico
    Southwestern New Mexico is a region of the U.S. state of New Mexico commonly defined by Hidalgo County, Grant County, Catron County, Luna County, Doña Ana County, Sierra County, and Socorro County. Some important towns there are Lordsburg, Silver City, Deming, Las Cruces, Truth or Consequences,...
    
    

Administrative divisions of New Mexico

• The 33 counties of the state of New Mexico
  • Municipalities in New Mexico
    • Cities in New Mexico
      • State capital of New Mexico: Santa Fe
      • Largest city in New Mexico: Albuquerque
        Albuquerque, New Mexico
        Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...
        
         (34th-largest city in the U.S. As of June 2007)
      • City nicknames in New Mexico

Government and politics of New Mexico

Main article: Government of New Mexico and Politics of New Mexico

• Form of government
  Form of government
  A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized. Synonyms include "regime type" and "system of government".-Empirical and conceptual problems:...
  
  : U.S. state government
  State governments of the United States
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• United States congressional delegations from New Mexico
  United States Congressional Delegations from New Mexico
  These are tables of congressional delegations from New Mexico to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-Passages:-Delegates from New Mexico Territory:-Members from The State of New Mexico:...
  
  
• New Mexico State Capitol
  New Mexico State Capitol
  The New Mexico State Capitol, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the house of government of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the only round state capitol in the United States, and is known informally as "the Roundhouse"....
  
  

• Elections in New Mexico
  • Electoral reform in New Mexico
    Electoral reform in New Mexico
    Electoral reform in New Mexico refers to efforts to change election and voting laws in this arid U.S. state.-Alternate voting systems:The Constitution of New Mexico specifies that the plurality candidate must be declared elected...
    
    
• Political party strength in New Mexico
  Political party strength in New Mexico
  The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of New Mexico:*Governor*Lieutenant Governor*Secretary of State*Attorney General*State Auditor*State Treasurer*Commissioner of Public Lands...
  
  

Executive branch of the government of New Mexico

• Governor of New Mexico
  • Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico
    Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico
    Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico is an official in the state of New Mexico that ranks just below the Governor of New Mexico. The current lieutenant governor is John Sanchez.- Partial list of Lieutenant Governors of New Mexico :...
    
    
  • Secretary of State of New Mexico
    Secretary of State of New Mexico
    The Secretary of State of New Mexico is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of New Mexico.The current Secretary of State is Dianna Duran.-Organization:The Secretary of State's Office is composed of four divisions:...
    
    
• State departments
  • New Mexico Department of Transportation
    New Mexico Department of Transportation
    The New Mexico Department of Transportation is a state government organization which oversees transportation in the U.S. state of New Mexico...
    
    

Legislative branch of the government of New Mexico

• New Mexico Legislature
  New Mexico Legislature
  The New Mexico Legislature is the legislative branch of the state government of New Mexico. It is a bicameral body made up of the New Mexico House of Representatives and the New Mexico Senate....
  
   (bicameral)
  • Upper house
    Upper house
    An upper house, often called a senate, is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house; a legislature composed of only one house is described as unicameral.- Possible specific characteristics :...
    
    : New Mexico Senate
    New Mexico Senate
    The New Mexico Senate is the upper house of the New Mexico State Legislature. The Senate consists of 42 members, with each senator representing an equal amount of single-member constituent districts across the state. All senatorial districts are divided to contain a population on average of 43,300...
    
    
  • Lower house
    Lower house
    A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house.Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide the lower house has come to wield more power...
    
    : New Mexico House of Representatives
    New Mexico House of Representatives
    The New Mexico House of Representatives is the lower house of the New Mexico State Legislature.There are 70 members of the House. Each member represents roughly 25,980 residents of New Mexico.The Speaker of the House is Ben Luján .-Composition:...
    
    

Judicial branch of the government of New Mexico

• Supreme Court of New Mexico
  New Mexico Supreme Court
  The New Mexico Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is established and its powers defined by Article VI of the New Mexico Constitution...
  
  

Law and order in New Mexico

Law of New Mexico

• Capital punishment in New Mexico
  Capital punishment in New Mexico
  Capital punishment was abolished on the U.S. State of New Mexico in 2009. The relevant legislation is not retrospective, and so it is still possible for convicts to be executed for crimes committed before 2009. The law replaced the death penalty for the most serious crimes with life imprisonment...
  
  
  • Individuals executed in New Mexico
• Constitution of New Mexico
• Crime in New Mexico
  Crime in New Mexico
  -Statistics:In 2008 there were 89,468 crimes reported in New Mexico including 142 murders a full list can be found -Capital punishment laws:Capital punishment is illegal in this state...
  
  
• Gun laws in New Mexico
• Law enforcement in New Mexico
  • Law enforcement agencies in New Mexico
    • New Mexico State Police
      New Mexico State Police
      The New Mexico State Police is the state police agency for New Mexico, which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state. It was created to protect the lives, property and constitutional rights of people in New Mexico...
      
      
• Same-sex marriage in New Mexico
  Same-sex marriage in New Mexico
  Same-sex marriages are not performed in the state of New Mexico, which also does not provide civil unions or domestic partnerships. Although New Mexican law does not explicitly permit or prohibit same-sex marriage, the state does not recognize such marriages established in other jurisdictions.A...
  
  

Military in New Mexico

• New Mexico Air National Guard
  New Mexico Air National Guard
  The New Mexico Air National Guard is the air force militia of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is, along with the New Mexico Army National Guard, an element of the New Mexico National Guard...
  
  
• New Mexico Army National Guard
  New Mexico Army National Guard
  The New Mexico Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army and the United States National Guard. Nationwide, the Army National Guard comprises approximately one half of the US Army's available combat forces and approximately one third of its support organization...
  
  

History of New Mexico, by period

• Prehistory of New Mexico
• Puebloan peoples
• Spanish
  Spain
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   exploration, 1541–1680
• Spanish
  Spain
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   colony of Santa Fé de Nuevo Méjico, 1598–1821
  • Juan de Oñate Salazar founds San Juan de los Caballeros near Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, 1598
  • Juan Martinez de Montoya founds La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís (Santa Fé
    Santa Fe, New Mexico
    Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...
    
    ) near pueblo, 1608
  • Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
    
     Pedro de Peralta moves capital from San Juan to Santa Fé, 1610
    • Village of Taos
      Taos, New Mexico
      Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico, incorporated in 1934. As of the 2000 census, its population was 4,700. Other nearby communities include Ranchos de Taos, Cañon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, and El Prado. The town is close to Taos Pueblo, the Native American...
      
       founded near Pueblo de Taos, 1617
  • Popé
    Popé
    Popé or Po'pay was a Tewa religious leader from Ohkay Owingeh , who led the Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonial rule in 1680.-Background:...
    
     leads Pueblo Revolt
    Pueblo Revolt
    The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, or Popé's Rebellion, was an uprising of several pueblos of the Pueblo people against Spanish colonization of the Americas in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.-Background:...
    
    , 1680–1692
  • Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
    
     Diego de Vargas Zapata y Luján Ponce de León y Contreras leads Reconquesta, 1692
  • Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
    
     Francisco Cuervo y Valdez founds Ranchos de Alburquerque (Albuquerque
    Albuquerque, New Mexico
    Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...
    
    ), 1706
  • Dominguez-Escalante Expedition
    Dominguez-Escalante Expedition
    The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition was conducted in 1776 to find an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Spanish missions in California...
    
    , 1776
  • United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
    
     presses territorial claims from Louisiana Purchase
    Louisiana Purchase
    The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. The U.S...
    
     of 1803
    • Spanish
      Spain
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       cavalry
      Cavalry
      Cavalry or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback. Cavalry were historically the third oldest and the most mobile of the combat arms...
      
       arrests U.S. Army Pike expedition
      Pike expedition
      The Pike Expedition was a military effort authorized by the United States government to explore the south and west of the recent Louisiana Purchase. Roughly contemporaneous with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, it was led by United States Army Captain Zebulon Pike, Jr...
      
      , 1807
  • Adams-Onís Treaty
    Adams-Onís Treaty
    The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain . It settled a standing border dispute between the two...
    
     of 1819
• Mexican War of Independence
  Mexican War of Independence
  The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish colonial authorities which started on 16 September 1810. The movement, which became known as the Mexican War of Independence, was led by Mexican-born Spaniards, Mestizos and Amerindians who sought...
  
  , September 16, 1810 – August 24, 1821
  • Treaty of Córdoba
    Treaty of Córdoba
    The Treaty of Córdova established Mexican independence from Spain at the conclusion of the Mexican War of Independence. It was signed on August 24, 1821 in Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico. The signatories were the head of the Army of the Three Guarantees, Agustín de Iturbide, and acting on behalf of the...
    
    , August 24, 1821
• Mexican
  Mexico
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   territory of Santa Fé de Nuevo México
  Santa Fe de Nuevo México
  Santa Fe de Nuevo México was a province of New Spain and later Mexico that existed from the late 16th century up through the mid-19th century. It was centered on the upper valley of the Rio Grande , in an area that included most of the present-day U.S. state of New Mexico...
  
  , 1821–1846
  • William Becknell
    William Becknell
    William Becknell was a freight operator who established the Santa Fe Trail.Becknell was born in Amherst County, Virginia. He left Franklin, Missouri in September 1821 on his first trip to the western US with a load of freight to deliver to Santa Fe, New Mexico...
    
     opens Santa Fe Trail
    Santa Fe Trail
    The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1822 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial and military highway until the introduction of the railroad to Santa Fe in 1880...
    
    , 1821
  • Constitution of Mexico of 1824
    1824 Constitution of Mexico
    The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 was enacted on October 4 of 1824, after the overthrow of the Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide. In the new constitution, the republic took the name of United Mexican States, and was defined as a representative federal republic, with...
    
    
  • Antonio Armijo
    Antonio Armijo
    Antonio Armijo was a Spanish Mexican explorer and merchant who was famous for leading the first commercial caravan party across the Las Vegas Valley in 1829. His route is known as the Old Spanish Trail...
    
     opens Spanish Trail
    Old Spanish Trail (trade route)
    The Old Spanish Trail is a historical trade route which connected the northern New Mexico settlements near or in Santa Fe, New Mexico with that of Los Angeles, California and southern California. Approximately long, it ran through areas of high mountains, arid deserts, and deep canyons. It is...
    
    , 1829
  • Republic of Texas
    Republic of Texas
    The Republic of Texas was an independent nation in North America, bordering the United States and Mexico, that existed from 1836 to 1846.Formed as a break-away republic from Mexico by the Texas Revolution, the state claimed borders that encompassed an area that included all of the present U.S...
    
     presses territorial claims, 1836–1845
    • Mexican Army
      Mexican Army
      The Mexican Army is the combined land and air branch and largest of the Mexican Military services; it also is known as the National Defense Army. It is famous for having been the first army to adopt and use an automatic rifle, , in 1899, and the first to issue automatic weapons as standard issue...
      
       arrests Texas Santa Fe Expedition
      Texas Santa Fe Expedition
      The Texas Santa Fe Expedition was a commercial and military expedition to secure the Republic of Texas's claims to parts of Northern New Mexico for Texas in 1841. The expedition was unofficially initiated by the then President of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar, in an attempt to gain control over the...
      
      , 1841
  • Revolt of 1837
    Revolt of 1837 (New Mexico)
    The Revolt of 1837, also known as the Chimayó Rebellion, was a popular insurrection in New Mexico against Albino Pérez, the Mexican governor at the time.-Background:Governor Pérez had arrived from central Mexico in 1835...
    
    
• Mexican-American War, April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848
  • U.S. Military Province of New Mexico, 1846
    • Military Governor - General
      General
      A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
      
       Stephen Watts Kearny, 1846
  • Siege of Pueblo de Taos
    Siege of Pueblo de Taos
    The Siege of Pueblo de Taos was the final battle during the main phase of the Taos Revolt, an insurrection against the United States during the Mexican-American War. It was also the final major engagement between American forces and insurgent forces in New Mexico during the war...
    
    , 1847
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico City, that ended the Mexican-American War on February 2, 1848...
    
    , February 2, 1848
• U.S. Provisional Government of New Mexico 1846-1850
  • State of Deseret
    State of Deseret
    The State of Deseret was a proposed state of the United States, propositioned in 1849 by Latter-day Saint settlers in Salt Lake City. The provisional state existed for slightly over two years and was never recognized by the United States government...
    
     (extralegal), 1849–1850
  • Proposed state of New Mexico, 1850
  • Compromise of 1850
    Compromise of 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War...
    
    
• Territory of New Mexico, 1850–1912
  • Gadsden Purchase
    Gadsden Purchase
    The Gadsden Purchase is a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853. It was then ratified, with changes, by the U.S...
    
     of 1853
  • Long Walk to Bosque Redondo, 1860–1861
  • American Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
    
    , April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865
    • New Mexico in the American Civil War, 1861–1865
      • Border territory, 1861–1865
      • New Mexico Campaign
        New Mexico Campaign
        The New Mexico Campaign was a military operation of the American Civil War from February to April 1862 in which Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded the northern New Mexico Territory in an attempt to gain control of the Southwest, including the gold fields of Colorado and the...
        
        , 1862
        • Battle of Glorieta Pass
          Battle of Glorieta Pass
          The Battle of Glorieta Pass, fought from March 26 to 28, 1862 in northern New Mexico Territory, was the decisive battle of the New Mexico Campaign during the American Civil War. Dubbed the "Gettysburg of the West" by some historians, it was intended as the killer blow by Confederate forces to break...
          
          , March 26–28, 1862
      • Confederate Territory of Arizona, 1861–1865
  • Comanche Campaign
    Comanche Campaign
    The Comanche Campaign, or the Comanche War, from 1867 to 1875, was a series of conflicts that took place throughout the border regions of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas, between the Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux and Cheyenne tribes of native Americans against the United States Army...
    
    , 1868–1874
  • Spanish-American War
    Spanish-American War
    The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...
    
    , April 25 – August 12, 1898
• State of New Mexico becomes 47th State admitted to the United States of America on January 6, 1912
  • World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
    
    , June 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918
    • United States
      United States
      The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
      
       enters Great War on April 6, 1917
  • Carlsbad Caverns National Park
    Carlsbad Caverns National Park
    Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a United States National Park in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park for most visitors is the show cave, Carlsbad Caverns...
    
     established on May 14, 1930
  • World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
    
    , September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945
    • United States
      United States
      The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
      
       enters Second World War on December 8, 1941
    • Manhattan Engineering District, 1941–1946
      • Site Y (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
        Los Alamos National Laboratory
        Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...
        
        , since 1943
      • Z Division (Sandia National Laboratories)
        Sandia National Laboratories
        The Sandia National Laboratories, managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation , are two major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratories....
        
        , since 1945
      • Trinity Site (White Sands Missile Range)
        White Sands Missile Range
        White Sands Missile Range is a rocket range of almost in parts of five counties in southern New Mexico. The largest military installation in the United States, WSMR includes the and the WSMR Otera Mesa bombing range...
        
        , since 1945
        • Trinity Test
          Trinity test
          Trinity was the code name of the first test of a nuclear weapon. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the new White Sands Proving Ground, which incorporated the Alamogordo Bombing...
          
          , 1945-07-16

History of New Mexico, by region

• By city
  • History of Roswell, New Mexico
  • History of Santa Fe, New Mexico

History of New Mexico, by subject

• Territorial evolution of New Mexico
  Territorial evolution of New Mexico
  thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the [[Treaty of Paris |Treaty of Paris]] in 1789thumb|240px|An enlargeable map of the United States after the [[Louisiana Purchase]] in 1803...
  
  
• Uranium mining in New Mexico
  Uranium mining in New Mexico
  Uranium mining in New Mexico, a state of the United States, was a significant industry from the early 1950s until the early 1980s. Although New Mexico has the second largest identified uranium ore reserves of any state in the US , no uranium ore has been mined in New Mexico since 1998.-White...
  
  

Culture of New Mexico

Main article: Culture of New Mexico

• Cuisine of New Mexico
• Museums in New Mexico
• Religion in New Mexico
• Scouting in New Mexico
  Scouting in New Mexico
  Scouting in New Mexico has had a rich and colorful history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live...
  
  
• State symbols of New Mexico
  • Flag of the State of New Mexico  
  • Great Seal of the State of New Mexico 

Economy and infrastructure of New Mexico

Main article: Economy of New Mexico

Economy of New Mexico

Oil and gas production, tourism, and federal government spending are important drivers of New Mexico's economy. State government has an elaborate system of tax credits and technical assistance to promote job growth and business investment, especially in new technologies.In 2010 New Mexico's Gross...

• Communications in New Mexico
  • Newspapers in New Mexico
  • Radio stations in New Mexico
  • Television stations in New Mexico
• Health care in New Mexico
  • Hospitals in New Mexico
• Transportation in New Mexico
  • Airports in New Mexico

Education in New Mexico

Main article: Education in New Mexico

• Schools in New Mexico
  • School districts in New Mexico
    • High schools in New Mexico
  • Colleges and universities in New Mexico
    • University of New Mexico
      University of New Mexico
      The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...
      
      
    • New Mexico State University
      New Mexico State University
      New Mexico State University at Las Cruces , is a major land-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States...
      
      

See also

• Outline of geography
  Outline of geography
  The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography:Geography – science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.- Geography is :...
  
  
  • Outline of North America
    • Outline of the United States
• Index of New Mexico-related articles

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