Lordsburg, New Mexico Lordsburg, New Mexico Hidalgo County Courthouse in Lordsburg Hidalgo County Courthouse in Lordsburg Location of Lordsburg in New Mexico Location of Lordsburg in New Mexico Lordsburg, New Mexico is positioned in the US Lordsburg, New Mexico - Lordsburg, New Mexico State New Mexico Lordsburg is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. The populace was 3,379 at the 2000 census.
1.1 New Mexico state song 1.2 Lordsburg Municipal Airport Lordsburg was established in 1880 on the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
New Mexico state song Lordsburg is the place of birth of the official New Mexico State song, O Fair New Mexico. It was written by Lordsburg resident Elizabeth Garrett, the blind daughter of famed sheriff Pat Garrett.
Hannett and the citizens of New Mexico an arrangement of the state song embracing a musical story of the Indian, the cavalry, the Spanish and the Mexican. Lordsburg Municipal Airport In December 1938, the Lordsburg Municipal Airport (KLSB) began operation. It was the first airport in New Mexico. In 1927, Lordsburg was one of the stops on Charles Lindbergh's transcontinental "Spirit of Saint Louis" air tour.
In the early 1950s the airport was served by the initial Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) which flew DC-3's on a route from El Paso to Phoenix that encompassed stops at Las Cruces, Deming, and Lordsburg, NM as well as Clifton, Safford, and Tucson, AZ. It is owned by the City of Lordsburg and is southeast, about one mile outside the town/city limits. Lordsburg held as many as 1,500 Japanese Americans in a Japanese American internment camp directed by the U.S.
On July 27, 1942, shortly after the Lordsburg Internment Camp was opened, Private First Class Clarence Burleson, a sentry at the facility, allegedly shot two Japanese American internees under questionable circumstances.
The camp at Lordsburg also held captured German and Italian soldiers. For many years, Lordsburg has been a prominent rest stop for citizens traveling to and from the West Coast by car on Interstate 10 and its precursor highway, U.S.
At just over 600 miles from Los Angeles, Lordsburg can comfortably be reached by car in less than one day.
As Lordsburg had one of the several motels in the Southwest that would accept black guests (El Paso being a notable exception), it was especially prominent with African American travelers in the mid-20th century amid the end of legal segregation.
There are presently 12 motels and hotels positioned in Lordsburg.
Lordsburg has a cool semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk), just avoiding designation as a cool desert climate (BWk).
100 F or 37.8 C is exceeded on average amid 22.8 afternoons each year, and the record high of 114 F (45.6 C) was set amid a notorious southwestern heatwave on June 27 of 1994.
From October temperatures cool off rapidly, and by November most mornings are below 32 F or 0 C, but afternoons remains comfortable to warm all though the winter, with only 10.1 afternoons failing to reach 50 F or 10 C and only one afternoon every two years not topping freezing.
Minima fall below freezing on an average of 121.3 mornings, but 0 F or 17.8 C has been reached only amid two exceptional cold waves in January 1962 and December 1978, when the record low of 14 F or 25.6 C was reached on the 9th.
Climate data for Lordsburg 4 SE, New Mexico (1971 to 2000; extremes 1948 to 2001) Lordsburg is the final destination in Stagecoach, the 9th greatest Western film of all time as stated to the American Film Institute, starring John Wayne in his breakthrough part as the Ringo Kid, and directed by John Ford.
The town of Lordsburg is mentioned some 20 times in the movie Comanche Station, but not visited once.
Lordsburg is also cited in the 1954 film, "Dawn at Socorro." In it, the character played by Piper Laurie tells the Rory Calhoun character that she had seen him in Lordsburg killing someone in a shoot-out.
Thus, Rory Calhoun was in two movies that used the "town" of Lordsburg.
Lordsburg High School's mascot is the Maverick.
Lordsburg once had two airways broadcasts.
This station later moved to Bayard, NM just 35 miles north of Lordsburg.
Amtrak has two train lines which stop at the Lordsburg station.
Lordsburg Municipal Airport, private, charter and military.
El Paso International Airport, 160 miles (260 km) east of Lordsburg, is the nearest enhance airport with scheduled passenger flights.
Tucson International Airport, 155 miles (249 km) west of Lordsburg.
Amtrak's Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle routes stop at Lordsburg Train Station.
Lordsburg, New Mexico Tourism Department New Mexico State Song a b https://newmexico.org/place/loc/bymap/page/DB-place/place/1444.html New Mexico Tourism Department https://nmtourism.org/place/loc/hunting/page/DB-place/category/105/place/588.html New Mexico Tourism Department Lordsburg Revisited: A Closer Look at the Lordsburg Court-martial New Mexico's Prisoner of War Camps 20 1971-2000: Lordsburg 4 SE, NM" (PDF).
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