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New Mexico Counties by Name

Information about counties in New Mexico organized alphabetically by county name. or

Bernalillo County
COUNTY SEAT: Albuquerque
1852 One of the nine original counties. The Gonzales-Bernal family, Spanish nobles who settled the territory in the seventeenth century 670,968 1,166 mi² (3,020 km²) State map highlighting Bernalillo County

Catron County
COUNTY SEAT: Reserve
1921 Part of Socorro County. Thomas Benton Catron, a Santa Fe attorney and New Mexico's first U.S. Senator 3,733 6,928 sq mi (17,943 km2) State map highlighting Catron County

Chaves County
COUNTY SEAT: Roswell
1889 Part of Lincoln County. Jose Francisco Chaves, a U.S. Army colonel in New Mexico during and after the Civil War 65,890 6,071 sq mi (15,724 km2) State map highlighting Chaves County

Cibola County
COUNTY SEAT: Grants
1981 Parts of Valencia County, Socorro County, McKinley County, and Catron County. The mythical Seven Cities of Cibola 27,658 4,540 sq mi (11,759 km2) State map highlighting Cibola County

Colfax County
COUNTY SEAT: Raton
1869 Part of Mora County. Schuyler Colfax, the seventeenth vic e president of the United States 13,640 3,757 sq mi (9,731 km2) State map highlighting Colfax County

Curry County
COUNTY SEAT: Clovis
1909 Parts of Quay County and Roosevelt County. George Curry, a governor of New Mexico Territory from 1907 to 1910 49,649 1,406 sq mi (3,642 km2) State map highlighting Curry County

De Baca County
COUNTY SEAT: Fort Sumner
1917 Parts of Chaves County and Guadalupe County. Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca, the second state governor of New Mexico 1,945 2,325 sq mi (6,022 km2) State map highlighting De Baca County

Doña Ana County
COUNTY SEAT: Las Cruces
1852 One of the nine original counties. Doña Ana Robledo, a seventeenth-century Spanish woman known for her charitable giving to the native population 213,598 3,807 sq mi (9,860 km2) State map highlighting Doña Ana County

Eddy County
COUNTY SEAT: Carlsbad
1887 Part of Lincoln County. Charles Eddy, a rancher and developer of the area 54,152 4,182 sq mi (10,831 km2) State map highlighting Eddy County

Grant County
COUNTY SEAT: Silver City
1868 Part of Doña Ana County. Ulysses Simpson Grant, the Civil War general and eighteenth president of the United States 29,380 3,966 sq mi (10,272 km2) State map highlighting Grant County

Guadalupe County
COUNTY SEAT: Santa Rosa
1891 Part of San Miguel County. Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of the Americas 4,619 3,031 sq mi (7,850 km2) State map highlighting Guadalupe County

Harding County
COUNTY SEAT: Mosquero
1921 Parts of Mora County and Union County. Warren Gamaliel Harding, the twenty-ninth president of the United States 740 2,126 sq mi (5,506 km2) State map highlighting Harding County

Hidalgo County
COUNTY SEAT: Lordsburg
1920 Part of Grant County. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the priest who is known as the Father of Mexican Independence 4,861 3,446 sq mi (8,925 km2) State map highlighting Hidalgo County

Lea County
COUNTY SEAT: Lovington
1917 Parts of Chaves County and Eddy County. Joseph Calloway Lea, a captain in the U.S. Army and the founder of the New Mexico Military Academy 65,423 4,393 sq mi (11,378 km2) State map highlighting Lea County

Lincoln County
COUNTY SEAT: Carrizozo
1869 Part of Socorro County. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States 20,454 4,831 sq mi (12,512 km2) State map highlighting Lincoln County

Los Alamos County
COUNTY SEAT: Los Alamos
1949 Parts of Sandoval County and Santa Fe County. Named for its county seat of Los Alamos, New Mexico, which itself is the Spanish name for the cottonwood tree 18,222 109 sq mi (282 km2) State map highlighting Los Alamos County

Luna County
COUNTY SEAT: Deming
1901 Parts of Doña Ana County and Grant County. Solomon Luna, the largest land owner in the county at the time of its creation; itself Spanish for moon 25,281 2,965 sq mi (7,679 km2) State map highlighting Luna County

McKinley County
COUNTY SEAT: Gallup
1899 Part of Bernalillo County. William McKinley, the twenty-fifth president of the United States 73,664 5,449 sq mi (14,113 km2) State map highlighting McKinley County

Mora County
COUNTY SEAT: Mora
1859 Part of Taos County. Named for its county seat of Mora, New Mexico, which is itself named after lo de mora, the Spanish term for blackberry 4,773 1,931 sq mi (5,001 km2) State map highlighting Mora County

Otero County
COUNTY SEAT: Alamogordo
1899 Parts of Doña Ana County and Lincoln County. Miguel A. Otero, territorial delegate to U. S. Congress 65,703 6,627 sq mi (17,164 km2) State map highlighting Otero County

Quay County
COUNTY SEAT: Tucumcari
1903 Part of Guadalupe County. Matthew Stanley Quay, a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania who supported New Mexico's statehood 9,026 2,855 sq mi (7,394 km2) State map highlighting Quay County

Rio Arriba County
COUNTY SEAT: Tierra Amarilla
1852 One of the nine original counties. Named for its location on the upper Rio Grande (Rio Arriba is "upper river" in Spanish) 40,446 5,858 sq mi (15,172 km2) State map highlighting Rio Arriba County

Roosevelt County
COUNTY SEAT: Portales
1903 Parts of Chaves County and Guadalupe County. Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States 20,446 2,449 sq mi (6,343 km2) State map highlighting Roosevelt County

San Juan County
COUNTY SEAT: Aztec
1887 Part of Rio Arriba County. San Juan River, itself named after the Catholic saint 128,200 5,514 sq mi (14,281 km2) State map highlighting San Juan County

San Miguel County
COUNTY SEAT: Las Vegas
1852 One of the nine original counties. San Miguel de Bado Catholic Church, the first in the area 29,301 4,717 sq mi (12,217 km2) State map highlighting San Miguel County

Sandoval County
COUNTY SEAT: Bernalillo
1903 Part of Bernalillo County. Named for the Sandoval family, prominent seventeenth-century Spanish landowners 134,259 3,710 sq mi (9,609 km2) State map highlighting Sandoval County

Santa Fe County
COUNTY SEAT: Santa Fe City
FOUNDED: 1852
- One of the nine original counties.
- Spanish term meaning "holy faith
- 145,648
- 1,909 square miles

Sierra County
COUNTY SEAT: Truth or Consequences 1884 Parts of Doña Ana County and Socorro County. Possibly named for the Black Range. (Sierra is mountain range in Spanish.) 11,943 4,180 sq mi (10,826 km2) State map highlighting Sierra County

Socorro County
COUNTY SEAT: Socorro
1852 One of the nine original counties. Spanish term meaning "aid," which refers to the help Native Americans gave to starving travelers 17,873 6,647 sq mi (17,216 km2) State map highlighting Socorro County

Taos County
COUNTY SEAT: Taos
1852 One of the nine original counties. Named for its county seat of Taos, New Mexico, which in turn was named for the nearby Taos Pueblo, an ancient Native American village. Taos is red willow in the Tiwa language 32,917 2,203 sq mi (5,706 km2) State map highlighting Taos County

Torrance County
COUNTY SEAT: Estancia
1903 Parts of Bernalillo County, Valencia County, and Socorro County. Francis J. Torrance, the developer of the New Mexico Central Railroad 16,345 3,345 sq mi (8,664 km2) State map highlighting Torrance County

Union County
COUNTY SEAT: Clayton
1893 Parts of Colfax County, Mora County and San Miguel County. Named for the "union" of the three counties which donated land to form the new county 4,433 3,830 sq mi (9,920 km2) State map highlighting Union County

Valencia County
COUNTY SEAT: Los Lunas
1852 One of the nine original counties. Named for the town of Valencia, New Mexico, which is itself named for Valencia, Spain 77,070 1,068 sq mi (2,766 km2)

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