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Hidalgo County, New Mexico

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
25historic places
—earliest paper
1920formed
4,178pop. 2020
10cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 25 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Animas, Lordsburg.

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 Hidalgo titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 25 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

25 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Alamo Hueco SiteAnimasSite1993
Archeological Site No. LA 54021AnimasSite1993
Archeological Site No. LA 54042AnimasSite1993
Archeological Site No. LA 54049AnimasSite1993
Archeological Site No. LA 54050AnimasSite1993
Box Canyon SiteAnimasSite1993
Brushy Creek RuinAnimasSite1993
Clanton Draw SiteAnimasSite1993
Culberson RuinAnimasSite1993
Double Adobe Creek SiteAnimasSite1993
Fortress-Stewart Ranch SiteAnimasSite1993
Hidalgo County CourthouseLordsburgBuilding1987
Hoskins SiteAnimasSite1993
Joyce Well SiteAnimasSite1993
Little SiteAnimasSite1993
Lordsburg High SchoolLordsburgBuilding2015
Lordsburg-Hidalgo County LibraryLordsburgBuilding2004
Lunch Box SiteAnimasSite1993
Metate RuinAnimasSite1993
Pendleton RuinAnimasSite1993
Pigpen Creek SiteAnimasSite1993
Saddle Bronc-Battleground SiteAnimasSite1993
Shakespeare Ghost TownLordsburgDistrict1973
Sycamore Well SiteAnimasSite1993
Timberlake Ruin-Walnut Creek SiteAnimasSite1993

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Hidalgo was formed in 1920 (1920-01-01) from Grant.

HIDALGO created from GRANT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Hidalgo County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

6,0495,1134,17819201960197020002020
1920194019501960198020002020
4,3384,8215,0954,9616,0495,9324,178

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).

SiteTypeDist.
Chiricahua National MonumentPark unit57.9 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed
NameLatLon
Busy Bee Cemetery32.06667-108.86977
Cloverdale Cemetery31.40583-108.92005
Middle Animas Cemetery31.8193-108.78046
Mountain View Cemetery32.36408-108.71615
Rodeo Cemetery31.83343-109.00917
Shakespeare Cemetery32.32442-108.72758
Steins Cemetery32.22625-108.98791
Valley View Community Church Cemetery32.15144-108.88027
Virden Catholic Cemetery32.6843-108.98259
Virden Cemetery32.69259-109.00509
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Leitendorf32.24814-108.757

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

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

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