Las Cruces, New Mexico Las Cruces, New Mexico City of Las Cruces View of Las Cruces with the Organ Mountains to the east View of Las Cruces with the Organ Mountains to the east Location of Las Cruces inside Dona Ana County and New Mexico Location of Las Cruces inside Dona Ana County and New Mexico Las Cruces, New Mexico is positioned in the US Las Cruces, New Mexico - Las Cruces, New Mexico 1,045,180 (El Paso Las Cruces CSA) Las Cruces, also known as "The City of the Crosses", is the seat of Dona Ana County, New Mexico, United States.
Las Cruces is the biggest city in both Dona Ana County and southern New Mexico. The Las Cruces urbane region had an estimated populace of 213,676 in 2014. It is the principal town/city of a urbane statistical region which encompasses all of Dona Ana County and is part of the larger El Paso Las Cruces combined statistical area.
Las Cruces is the economic and geographic center of the Mesilla Valley, the agricultural region on the floodplain of the Rio Grande which extends from Hatch to the west side of El Paso, Texas.
Las Cruces is the home of New Mexico State University (NMSU), New Mexico's only land-grant university.
Las Cruces lies 225 miles (362 km) south of Albuquerque, 48 miles (77 km) northwest of El Paso, Texas and 46 miles (74 km) north of the Mexican border at Santa Teresa.
Spaceport America, which lies 55 miles (89 km) to the north and with corporate offices in Las Cruces, has seen the culmination of a several prosperous manned, suborbital flights.
The region where Las Cruces rose was previously inhabited by the Manso citizens , with the Mescalero Apache living nearby.:19 The region was later colonized by the Spanish beginning in 1598, when Juan de Onate claimed all territory north of the Rio Grande for New Spain and later became the first governor of the Spanish territory of New Mexico.:20 21 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 established the United States as owner of this territory, and Las Cruces was established in 1849 when the US Army laid out the town plans.:36,40 Mesilla became the dominant settlement of the area, with more than 2,000 inhabitants in 1860, more than twice what Las Cruces had.:48 When the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway reached the area, the landowners of Mesilla refused to sell it the rights-of-way, and instead inhabitants of Las Cruces donated the rights-of-way and territory for a depot in Las Cruces.:58 The first train reached Las Cruces in 1881.:62 Las Cruces was not affected as firmly by the train as some other villages, as it was not a end or a crossroads, but the populace did expanded to 2,300 in the 1880s.
Las Cruces was incorporated as a town in 1907.:135:63 Pat Garrett is best known for his involvement in the Lincoln County War, but he also worked in Las Cruces on a famous case, the disappearance of Albert Jennings Fountain in 1896.:68 Growth of Las Cruces has been attributed to the university, government jobs and recent retirees.
New Mexico State University was established in 1888, and it has grown as Las Cruces has grown.
Las Cruces is the nearest town/city to each, and they furnish Las Cruces' work force many high-paying, stable, government jobs.
In recent years, the influx of retirees from out of state has also increased Las Cruces' population.
Former Dona Ana County courthouse in Las Cruces In the 1960s Las Cruces undertook a large urban renewal project, intended to convert the old downtown into a undivided town/city center.:115 As part of this, St.
In Spanish Las Cruces means "the crosses." The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre occurred in Las Cruces.
Las Cruces as seen from space The approximate altitude of Las Cruces is 3,908 feet (1,191 m) above sea level.
The Rio Grande flowing through Las Cruces Las Cruces is the center of the Organ Caldera; the Dona Ana Mountains to the north and the Organ Mountains to the east are its margins. Its primary eruption was 32 Ma. Picacho Peak northwest of Las Cruces with fields of cotton, which is grown in abundance in the Mesilla Valley The Rio Grande bisects the Mesilla Valley and passes west of Las Cruces proper, supplying irrigation water for the intensive agriculture encircling the city. However, the Rio Grande fills its banks only when water is released from upstream dams, which is seldom, due to closing drought. Desert grasslands extend in large part between the edges of Las Cruces and the lower slopes of the close-by Organ and Robledo Mountains, where grasses and assorted shrubs and cacti dominate large areas of this mostly rangeland as well as the occasional large-lot subdivision housing.
These arroyos often contain scattered small trees, and they serve as wildlife corridors between Las Cruces' urban areas and adjoining deserts or mountain peaks.
The 10-story Wells Fargo Tower, tallest building in downtown Las Cruces, originally the First National Bank Tower Unlike many metros/cities its size, Las Cruces lacks a true central company district.
Las Cruces' shopping mall and a range of retail stores and restaurants are positioned in this area.
The downtown mall has an extensive farmers market each Wednesday and Saturday morning, where a range of foods and cultural items can be purchased from various small stands that are set up by small-town farmers, artists and craftspeople. It also contains exhibitions, businesses, restaurants, churches, art arcades and theaters, which add a great deal to the changing character of Las Cruces' historic downtown.
In February 2013, Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima announced amid his "State of the City" address that a 700-acre (280 ha) park in the region behind the Las Cruces Dam was under construction, in cooperation with the Army Corps of Engineers.
Precipitation is very light from October to June, with only occasional winter storm systems bringing steady rain to the Las Cruces area.
Climate data for State Univ, Las Cruces, New Mexico (1981 2010 normals; extremes since 1892) As of the 2010 census Las Cruces had a populace of 97,618. The ethnic and ethnic makeup of the populace was: New evolution on Las Cruces' east mesa.
Major employers in Las Cruces are New Mexico State University, Las Cruces Public Schools, the City of Las Cruces, Memorial Medical Center, Walmart, Mountain - View Regional Medical Center, Dona Ana County, Dona Ana Community College, Addus Health - Care, and NASA.
In 1970 the movie Up in the Cellar was shot in and around Las Cruces and New Mexico State University.
The 1964 pilot, Calhoun: County Agent, starring Jackie Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, was filmed in and around Las Cruces, but never aired. The process of writing and shooting the pilot is the subject of Merle Miller and Evan Rhodes's book Only You, Dick Daring! The Organ Mountains immediately east of Las Cruces were used extensively as a backdrop for the movie, once being incorrectly cited as mountain peaks in Dallas, Texas, where there are no mountain peaks.
The 1968 Clint Eastwood movie Hang 'Em High was filmed entirely in the desert encircling Las Cruces.
The Harvest Wine Festival is held over Labor Day weekend, and features wines from New Mexico wineries, a grape stomping contest, a several concerts throughout the weekend, food from a several small-town vendors, and related shopping. The Southern New Mexico Wine Festival is held over Memorial Day weekend and also exclusively features New Mexico wines, small-town foods, and live music.
The Southern New Mexico State Fair, usually held the first week in October at the fairgrounds west of Las Cruces, promotes traditional agriculture.
The event is held at the plaza in Mesilla, and at the Branigan Cultural Center in downtown Las Cruces.
Every year in October, Las Cruces holds a pumpkin harvest festival in Mesilla for the whole month of October.
Cowboy Days is an event held in Las Cruces at the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum.
One last primary event held annually in the Las Cruces region is the lighting of the Mesilla Plaza.
The New Mexico State University Arthropod Museum and Collection contains approximately 500,000 arthropod specimens. The University Museum (Kent Hall) at New Mexico State University focuses on archeological and ethnographic collections and also has some history and natural science collections. The Las Cruces Museum of Art offers art exhibits and classes.
The Las Cruces Museum of Natural History makes science and natural history more accessible to the general enhance and has an emphasis on small-town animals and plants.
The Las Cruces Railroad Museum is in the historic Santa Fe Railroad station.
The New Mexico Veterans Museum, a new state-owned exhibition, was announced in August 2008 and is prepared to be constructed in Las Cruces. The town of Mesilla, positioned 3 miles (5 km) to the southwest, is a suburb of Las Cruces.
There is a visitor center inside the Town Hall. The Shalem Colony and Oahspe Museum memorializes the utopian Shalem Colony that existed near Las Cruces from 1884 to 1907 and the Oahspe bible that they used. Highway 70 on the east side of the mountain peaks, 17 miles (27 km) east of Las Cruces.
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument is the nation's newest nationwide monument and is presently being advanced just northwest of Las Cruces in the Robledo Mountains.
The Las Cruces Kings have been a long running semi-professional football team in the city.
Beginning in the 2010 season, the Las Cruces Vaqueros were the first ever experienced sports team in Las Cruces.
Las Cruces operates 87 town/city parks, 18 tennis courts, and four golf courses.:41 A list of parks, with facilities and maps, is available.:8 The new Las Cruces City Hall opened in April 2010.
Las Cruces is a charter town/city (also called a home rule city) and has a council-manager form of government. The town/city council consists of six councillors and the mayor, who chairs the meetings.:Article II The mayor is propel at-large, and each of the town/city councilors represents one neighborhood precinct within the city.:Article II Each resident of Las Cruces is thus represented by the mayor and by one town/city councilor.
Public schools are in the Las Cruces Public School District, which covers the town/city of Las Cruces as well as White Sands Missile Range, the settlement of Dona Ana, and the town of Mesilla.
There are four charter schools inside the Las Cruces Public Schools.
Las Cruces High School ground Las Cruces High School There are four private Christian schools. College Heights Kindergarten is a private Christian kindergarten, established in 1954. Desert Springs Christian Academy, Las Cruces Catholic School and Mesilla Valley Christian School are the other three Christian schools in the area.
A secular non-profit private school, Las Cruces Academy, aimed ted and academically advanced students, is offering grades K-5 with plans to eventually enroll grades K 12. Las Cruces hosts the chief campus of the New Mexico State University.
New Mexico State University, or NMSU, is a land-grant college that has its chief campus in Las Cruces. The school was established in 1888 as Las Cruces College, an agricultural college, and in 1889 the school became New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
The NMSU Las Cruces ground had approximately 18,500 students enrolled as of fall 2012, and had a faculty-to-student ratio of about 1 to 19.
DACC operates centers in Anthony, Sunland Park, Chaparral, and White Sands Missile Range. In Las Cruces, its central ground is at 3400 S.
Community Education is available at all centers and campuses and also in Las Cruces at the Mesquite Neighborhood Learning Center at 804 N.
The metro region has TV transmitting stations that serve the El Paso Las Cruces Designated Market Area (DMA) as defined by Nielsen Media Research.
The City of Las Cruces operates CLC-TV cable channel 20, an Emmy award-winning 24-hour Government-access tv (GATV) and Educational-access tv channel on Comcast cable TV in Las Cruces.
CLC-TV televises live and recorded Las Cruces town/city council meetings, Dona Ana County commission meetings and Las Cruces School board meetings.
The channel also televises City Beat, a monthly news magazine, hosted by Jennifer Martinez, with knowledge directly related to the City of Las Cruces.
Las Cruces Sun-News is a daily journal presented in Las Cruces by Media - News Group.
Las Cruces Bulletin is a weekly improve journal presented in Las Cruces by FIG Publications, LLC.
The Ink is a monthly tabloid presented in Las Cruces, covering the arts and improve affairs in southern New Mexico and west Texas.
Las Cruces has one tv station, the PBS supply KRWG-TV, directed by New Mexico State University.
The Telemundo supply KTDO-TV is licensed in Las Cruces but serves El Paso.
Las Cruces is in Nielsen Media Research's El Paso/Las Cruces tv media market.
Las Cruces has one small-town commercial autonomous cable tv station called "The Las Cruces Channel" (LCC98).
There are approximately ten commercial airways broadcasts in the Las Cruces area, running a range of formats.
Four of these stations are owned by Adams Radio Group and four are owned by Bravo Mic Communications, LLC, a Las Cruces company.
KRUC is a Spanish-language station in Las Cruces.
Many El Paso stations are received in Las Cruces.
Las Cruces is in Arbitron's Las Cruces media market.
Radio stations in the Las Cruces, New Mexico market Las Cruces International Airport No current regularly scheduled commercial passenger flights since July 25, 2005, when Westward Airways ceased operations.
Las Cruces is the southern end for Interstate 25 where it intersects Interstate 10.
Las Cruces is served by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, via a branch line that extends from Belen, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas.
NMDOT Park and Ride's Gold Route joins Las Cruces to El Paso, Texas Monday through Friday amid commute hours.
The Silver Route joins Las Cruces to White Sands Missile Range.
Ztrans joins Las Cruces with Alamogordo. Greyhound's Las Cruces stop is positioned in the close-by unincorporated improve of Dona Ana.
Buses departing Las Cruces serve El Paso, Amarillo, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The town/city of Las Cruces provides water, sewer, natural gas, and solid waste services, including recycling centers. El Paso Electric is the electricity provider, Century - Link is the telephone territory line provider, and Comcast is the cable TV provider.
The physical plant is owned by the City of Las Cruces and the County of Dona Ana, who signed a 40-year, $150 million lease in 2004 with Province Health - Care, since combined into Life - Point. Prior to 2004 it was leased to and directed by the nonprofit Memorial Medical Center Inc. The hospital is a licensed 286-bed acute care facility and is accredited by JCAHO.
Las Cruces Urgent Care Jerry Apodaca, 24th Governor of New Mexico, born in Las Cruces Anwar al-Awlaki, Alleged Al-Qaeda spokesman and county-wide leader, born in Las Cruces; killed by the U.S.
Army officer and a Confederate States Army general amid the American Civil War; spent six years in Las Cruces before to the war Rich Beem, experienced golfer who played high school and college golf at Las Cruces High School and New Mexico State University; winner of the 2002 PGA Championship Baxter Black, cowboy, poet, philosopher, former large-animal veterinarian, and radio commentator, who interval up in Las Cruces and attended New Mexico State University William Bowers, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, born in Las Cruces Pamela Burford, novelist, born in Las Cruces Cooper, physician and educator, first president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, interval up in Las Cruces Doug Eddings, Major League umpire, lives in Las Cruces Richard Farrer, South African American soccer player, interval up in Las Cruces Charley Johnson, NFL quarterback, professor of chemical engineering at his alma mater, New Mexico State University, resides in Las Cruces Timothy Kraft, political consultant, 1980 campaign manager for Jimmy Carter, retired in Las Cruces Kiki Lara, soccer player, born in Las Cruces Ambassador to South Africa, president and CEO of National Public Radio, resides in Las Cruces Mireille Marokvia, French writer best known for two books about her ordeals amid World War II in Nazi Germany; lived in Las Cruces later in life until her death in 2008 Burl Noggle, historian who lived in Las Cruces from 1955 to 1960, when he taught at NMSU; he moved to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he wrote a book on the Teapot Dome scandal Rose Marie Pangborn, scientist, pioneer in the sensory analysis of food, born in Las Cruces Buck Pierce, experienced Canadian football quarterback who played for New Mexico State University; lives in Las Cruces amid the off-season Bashir Ramzy, long jumper in track and field, won a bronze medal in the 2007 Pan American Games; born in Las Cruces Tom Smith, playwright and director, teaches at New Mexico State University, resides in Las Cruces Clyde Tombaugh, identified Pluto, lived in Las Cruces until his death in 1997 Prentiss Walker, member of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi, lived part of his childhood in Las Cruces Fredd Young, four-time Pro Bowl football player for the Seattle Seahawks and the Indianapolis Colts; played for New Mexico State, lives in Las Cruces Las Cruces has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Las Cruces Sister Cities Foundation is responsible for overseeing sister metros/cities activities on behalf of the people of Las Cruces.
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