Fort Sumner, New Mexico This article is about the town in New Mexico.
Civil War began, see Fort Sumter.
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Fort Sumner, New Mexico Location of Fort Sumner, New Mexico Location of Fort Sumner, New Mexico Fort Sumner, New Mexico is positioned in the US Fort Sumner, New Mexico - Fort Sumner, New Mexico Location in the United States State New Mexico Fort Sumner is a village in De Baca County, New Mexico, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of De Baca County. Fort Sumner is the spring and fall home of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, and is home to the burial site of famed outlaw of the American West Billy the Kid.
Named after former New Mexico military governor Edwin Vose Sumner, U.S.
Fort Sumner was a military fort charged with the internment of close-by Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863 to 1868.
The federal government closed the fort in 1868 and sold its buildings to Lucien Maxwell, a prominent New Mexico landowner, in 1870.
Billy the Kid is buried in the old military cemetery in Fort Sumner, as is Lucien Maxwell.
In the 1920s the Transcontinental Air Transport airline assembled an airfield in Fort Sumner as part of its coast-to-coast air passenger network, but the site was abandoned when the airline's ambitious plans collapsed in the Great Depression.
After the war, the base became the Fort Sumner Municipal Airport, and was chosen as a launch site for NASA's high-altitude balloon program.
Fort Sumner is positioned northeast of the center of De Baca County at 34 28 23 N 104 14 32 W, on the north side of the Pecos River.
Route 60 passes through the village as Sumner Avenue, dominant east 60 miles (97 km) to Clovis and west 57 miles (92 km) to Vaughn.
US 84 runs east from Fort Sumner with US 60 to Clovis and the Texas border beyond it.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village of Fort Sumner has a total region of 3.34 square miles (8.66 km2), of which 3.31 square miles (8.58 km2) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2), or 0.93%, is water. Climate data for Fort Sumner, New Mexico (1981 2010) Route 84 in Fort Sumner There were 680 housing units at an average density of 204.0 per square mile (78.8/km2).
In the village, the populace was spread out with 22.4% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 21.2% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 31.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the village was $19,583, and the median income for a family was $28,625.
About 20.4% of families and 25.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 33.9% of those under age 18 and 17.1% of those age 65 or over.
In 1866, the US government was holding thousands of Native Indians at Fort Sumner after they were subdued by Kit Carson.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Fort Sumner village, New Mexico".
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