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It was the chief building of the Los Alamos Ranch School.
Los Alamos (Spanish: Los Alamos, meaning "The Cottonwoods") is a town in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States that is recognized as the place of birth of the first atomic bomb the major objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory amid World War II.
It is the governmental center of county and one of two populace centers in the county known as census-designated places (CDPs); the other is White Rock.
4.1 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos is assembled on the Pajarito Plateau between White Rock Canyon and the Valles Caldera.
Brook sold part of his territory and buildings to Detroit businessman Ashley Pond II in 1917 which began the Los Alamos Ranch School, titled after the aspen trees that blossomed in the spring.
The Main Gate to Los Alamos amid the Manhattan Project.
All incoming truckloads were labeled as common items to conceal the true nature of their contents, and any outbound correspondence by those working and living in Los Alamos was censored by military officials.
The mailing address for all of Los Alamos was PO Box 1663, Santa Fe, NM.
After the Manhattan Project was completed, White Rock was abandoned until 1963 when citizens began to re-inhabit and rebuild new homes and buildings.
Los Alamos National Laboratory was established as a research government facility under the Department of Energy.
Department of Energy announced the establishment of Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos, along with units in Hanford, Washington and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Los Alamos is positioned approximately 35 mi (56 km) to the northwest of Santa Fe.
The Los Alamos Townsite and White Rock are positioned on flat mesa tops separated by steep canyons.
The town of Los Alamos was assembled on four mesas Barranca Mesa, North Mesa, Los Alamos Mesa and South Mesa along with the connecting communities at the base of the mountain.
Much of Los Alamos County is inside the Espanola Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest.
Los Alamos has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb) with cold though not harsh winters and summers with very warm days, cool evenings, and incessant monsoonal thunderstorms.
Snowfall is quite heavy, but very little of it lies on the ground for long, with the median cover in January being 4 inches (0.10 m) and the highest monthly mean 14 inches (0.36 m) in February 1993, whilst temperatures below 0 F ( 17.8 C) are very rare, occurring on an average of two evenings annually.
Climate data for Los Alamos, New Mexico (1942-2006) Average rain days 5 6 7 6 7 7 13 15 8 6 5 5 90 Los Alamos' geographical locale causes its wildlife and vegetation to be diverse compared to encircling areas in the state.
"The variation in altitude creates rain and temperature gradients that support a wide range of plant communities..." There are six different plant communities inside the county; each is home to unique flora and fauna. Ponderosa pine trees are the most common trees at the altitude of Los Alamos (7,000 and 8,000 feet (2,100 and 2,400 m)).
The Las Conchas Fire of 2011 burned about three times as many acres and also prompted evacuation of Los Alamos, but there was no damage to property in Los Alamos. The current populace is 12,019 with a populace density of 1,078.7 inhabitants per square mile (416.5/km2). The median age is 40 years. 24.8% of the citizens are under the age of 18, 4.8% are ages 18 to 24, 29.2% are ages 25 to 44, 28.2% are ages 45 to 64, and 12.9% are ages 65 years or older. For every 100 females there were 101.3 males. Los Alamos is demographically unique compared to its encircling counties and the state as a whole.
Over 35% of the populace of encircling counties (Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, and Sandoval) and the state of New Mexico are Hispanic or Latino, while only about 15% of Los Alamosans are Hispanic or Latino.
The white and especially the Asian populations of Los Alamos are decidedly higher than the rest of New Mexico. The median homehold income in Los Alamos is $98,458, and per capita income is $54,067.
Income is decidedly higher than the rest of New Mexico. Los Alamos has the highest millionaire concentration of any US town/city with 12.4 percent of homeholds having at least $1 million in assets. Only 6.6% of citizens are below the poverty line, half the rate of the United States, and one-third the rate of New Mexico. As of January 2015, there were zero homeless individuals. Los Alamos is the fifth-fastest-growing town/city in New Mexico, after Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Las Cruces, and Ruidoso. Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory is the area's biggest employer (10,500 employees), and is foundational to the economy of Los Alamos, with an annual budget of about $2.45 billion.
Approximately 40% of the laboratory's employees live in Los Alamos, while the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Espanola, Taos, and Albuquerque.
The geography of Los Alamos lends itself to a several sports and recreational activities.
Los Alamos is host to the following sporting affairs: Tour de Los Alamos (road cycling race) Los Alamos Triathalon Los Alamos provides a several transportation services: Los Alamos is mostly isolated, and can only be accessed from NM 4 from the south and NM 502 from the east.
There are three access roads between White Rock and Los Alamos Main Hill Road, Jemez Road and Pajarito Road.
New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) Park-and-Ride New Mexico Rail Runner Express Los Alamos County Airport, positioned on the easterly edge of Los Alamos, is the only airport in the county.
The 47-bed acute-care facility known as Los Alamos Medical Center is the only hospital in Los Alamos and is a Life - Point Health hospital.
Medical Associates of Northern New Mexico (MANNM) is a group of medical providers that offers family medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, nephrology, and endocrinology among its many services. The radio telescope positioned in Los Alamos is one of ten dishes composing the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA).
Los Alamos maintains sister town/city status with the following global location: In June 2016 a collaboration was initiated between the County of Los Alamos, the Los Alamos Commerce & Development Corporation and the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Feynman Center for Innovation and Community Relations and Partnerships Office, to open a private, non-profit coworking space called Project - Y cowork Los Alamos. Manhattan Project National Historical Park, National Park Service and Department of Energy unit a b c d e f g h "Los Alamos CDP, New Mexico".
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