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Santa Rosa is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States. The populace was 2,848 at the 2010 census. It lies between Albuquerque and Tucumcari, situated on the Pecos River at the intersection of Interstate 40, U.S.
The name was changed in 1890 to Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Saint Rose"), referring to a chapel that Don Celso Baca (the founder of the city) assembled and titled after both his mother Rosa and Saint Rose of Lima.
At the time of its founding, Santa Rosa was not the biggest settlement inside the small radius.
Santa Rosa was more of a so-to-say suburb of Puerto de Luna until 1901 when the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad was assembled in Santa Rosa.
Because of the rocky and mountainous terrain of PDL, the barns had to be assembled in Santa Rosa turning the town/city into a boomtown that interval exponentially.
Santa Rosa was connected by barns to Chicago, El Paso, and the world at large in the early 1900s.
Santa Rosa's stretch of U.S.
When John Steinbeck's epic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, was made into a movie, director John Ford used Santa Rosa for the memorable train scene.
Santa Rosa has many natural lakes, an anomaly in the dry desert climate encircling it.
Santa Rosa is positioned near the center of Guadalupe County at 34 56 32 N 104 41 2 W (34.942166, -104.683981). Interstate 40 serves the town/city with three exits (273, 275, and 277); the highway leads east 59 miles (95 km) to Tucumcari and west 115 miles (185 km) to Albuquerque.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.0 square miles (12.9 km2), of which 0.03 square miles (0.07 km2), or 0.52%, is water. Santa Rosa High School's football team won back-to-back-to-back state championships in the 2010, 2011, and 2012 AA state championships.
In 2010 the Santa Rosa Lions beat the Tularosa Wildcats, and in 2011 the Santa Rosa Lions beat the Eunice Cardinals.
In 2012, the Santa Rosa Lions went undefeated, shutting out the Tularosa Wildcats in the championship.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Santa Rosa city, New Mexico".
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