Raton, New Mexico Raton, New Mexico Location inside Colfax County and New Mexico Location inside Colfax County and New Mexico State New Mexico Raton is a town/city and the governmental center of county of Colfax County in northeastern New Mexico.
The town/city is positioned just south of Raton Pass.
Santa Fe Trail in Raton Raton is the Spanish term for "mouse" (literally "small rat").
The Raton Range and Raton Peak are positioned immediately north of the town.
The Raton Range is a 75-mile-long (121 km) ridge that extends east from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Raton Pass and the Raton Basin are also titled for the Raton Range.
Raton Pass had been used by Spanish explorers and Indians for centuries to cut through the rugged Rocky Mountains, but the trail was too rough for wagons on the Santa Fe Trail.
The postal service at this locale was titled Willow Springs from 1877 to 1879, Otero from 1879 to 1880, then retitled Raton in 1880.:286 Raton was established at the site of Willow Springs, a stop on the Santa Fe Trail.
Raton quickly advanced as a barns , quarrying and ranching center for the northeast part of the New Mexico territory, as well as the governmental center of county and principal trading center of the area.
Raton is positioned at 36 53 49 N 104 26 24 W (36.897082, -104.439912). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.0 square miles (20.6 km2), all land. Iridium Layer sign at the rocks of the K-T Boundary, in Climax Canyon Park, City of Raton.
First Christian Church, in dark pink adobe architecture, is positioned near the municipal building in Raton; pastor Cleve Bishop (2010).
Raton sign positioned on a hill above the town/city (summer 2010) Raton is one of the famous sites for viewing the K-T Boundary, also known as the K-Pg Boundary or Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, or the Iridium Layer. There is a well-preserved sequence of rocks spanning the Cretaceous Paleogene boundary in Climax Canyon Park, a Raton town/city park to the west of town. Geographic Coordinates: 36 54 13.99 N 104 27 0.75 W Raton Municipal Airport Sugarite Canyon State Park is positioned 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Raton at an altitude of 8,800 feet (2,700 m).
The NRA Whittington Center is positioned 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Raton.
Raton was the site of New Mexico's first horse racetrack, La Mesa Park, which closed in 1992.
John Morrow, United States Representative from New Mexico "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Raton city, New Mexico".
"The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado" (PDF).
41st Field Conference, Souther Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico (Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains): 327 331.
Raton, City Manager (2014).
Old Raton Pass City Park Map and Brochure (Paper Re-Print ed.).
Raton, New Mexico: Raton Visitor Center.
- A brief improve history of Raton, New Mexico, 1880-1930: Commemorating Her Fiftieth Birthday.
- Raton, New Mexico: Gazette Print.
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City of Raton official website Raton Municipal Airport Municipalities and communities of Colfax County, New Mexico, United States State of New Mexico
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