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Eddy County, New Mexico

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34historic places

—earliest paper

1891formed

62,314pop. 2020

20cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 34 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Artesia, Carlsbad, Queen.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for New Mexico is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Eddy titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

17 of 34 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

34 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Abo Elementary School and Fallout Shelter	Artesia	Building	1999
Acord, John, House	Artesia	Building	1984
Archeological Site No. AR 03-08-03-195	Queen	Site	1995
Archeological Site No. AR-03-08-03-232	Queen	Site	1995
Armandine	Carlsbad	Building	2003
Artesia Residential Historic District	Artesia	District	2013
Atkeson, Willie D., House	Artesia	Building	1984
Baskin Building	Artesia	Building	1990
Baskin, William, House	Artesia	Building	1984
Carlsbad Irrigation District NHL	Carlsbad	District	1966
Caverns, The, Historic District	Carlsbad	District	1988
Caverns, The, Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Carlsbad	District	2014
Dam-Sitting Bull Falls Recreation Area	Carlsbad	Site	1993
Dark Canyon Apache Rancheria-Military Battle Site	Queen	Site	2002
First National Bank of Eddy	Carlsbad	Building	1976
Gesler, Edward R., House	Artesia	Building	1984
Group Picnic Shelter-Sitting Bull Falls Recreation Area	Carlsbad	Site	1993
Hodges-Runyan-Brainard House	Artesia	Building	1984
Hodges-Sipple House	Artesia	Building	1984
LA 157206-White Oaks Pictograph Site	Queen	Site	2011
LA 158783-Ambush Site	Queen	Site	2011
LA 162411-Lost Again Shelter	Queen	Site	2011
LA 64908-Ambush Two Hands Shelter	Queen	Site	2011
LA 71921-Horse Well Shelters	Queen	Site	2011
Last Chance Canyon Apache-Cavalry Battle Site	Queen	Site	2000
Lukins, F. L., House	Artesia	Building	1984
Mauldin-Hall House	Artesia	Building	1984
Moore-Ward Cobblestone House	Artesia	Building	1984
Painted Grotto	Carlsbad	Site	1977
Picnic Shelter-Sitting Bull Falls Recreation Area	Carlsbad	Structure	1993
Rattlesnake Springs Historic District	Carlsbad	District	1988
Robert, Sallie Chisum, House	Artesia	Building	1984
Ross, Dr. Robert M., House	Artesia	Building	1984
Tansill, Rober Weems and Mary E., House	Carlsbad	Building	2002

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Eddy was formed in 1891 (1891-01-01) from unknown / original county.

EDDY created by New Mexico Terr. from LINCOLN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Eddy County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,229	9,116	24,311	40,640	50,783	47,855	51,658	62,314

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park	Park unit	34.2 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

20 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 20 of 20 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bounds Family Cemetery	32.208	-104.24506
Braddock Gravesite	32.77279	-104.74126
Cuba Cemetery	32.29845	-104.15747
DeMoss Cemetery	32.04968	-104.84097
Hope South Cemetery	32.78048	-104.71894
Hope West Cemetery	32.82566	-104.77801
Lakewood Cemetery	32.64159	-104.3986
Lookout Cemetery	32.2315	-104.10937
Loving Cemetery	32.29538	-104.08271
McDonald Cemetery	32.58835	-104.50751
Old Lakewood Cemetery	32.62722	-104.36602
Queen Cemetery	32.19994	-104.73395
Rattlesnake Springs Cemetery	32.1079	-104.45991
Rocky Arroyo Cemetery	32.46037	-104.45688
Seven Rivers Cemetery (historical)	32.58234	-104.38579
South Cemetery	32.20043	-104.2612
Turknett Cemetery	32.81635	-104.39308
Twin Oaks Memorial Park	32.88926	-104.39978
Woodbine Cemetery	32.83025	-104.39237
X Bar Ranch Cemetery	32.19124	-104.61922

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Lookout	32.23234	-104.11244

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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