Silver City, New Mexico Silver City, New Mexico City Hall Official seal of Silver City, New Mexico Location in the State of New Mexico Location in the State of New Mexico Silver City, New Mexico is positioned in the US Silver City, New Mexico - Silver City, New Mexico State New Mexico Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, United States.
It is the governmental center of county and the home of Western New Mexico University.
The valley that is now the site of Silver City once served as an Apache campsite.
With a wave of American prospectors, the pace of change increased, and Silver City was established in the summer of 1870.
The beginning of the town occurred shortly after the discernment of silver ore deposits at Chloride Flat, on the hill just west of the farm of Captain John M.
Following the silver strike, Captain Bullard laid out the streets of Silver City, and a bustling tent town/city quickly sprang to life.
Although the trajectory of Silver City's evolution was to be different from the hundreds of other quarrying boom suburbs established amid the same period, Captain Bullard himself never lived to see even the beginnings of permanence, as he was killed in a tumultuous with Apache raiders less than a year later, on February 23, 1871.
Whitehill arrested him twice, both times for theft in Silver City, and would later claim that Bonney was a likeable kid, whose stealing was a result more of necessity than criminality.
Morrill, in a talk given to the Daughters of the American Revolution chapter in Silver City on September 19, 1908, stated, "John Bullard was placed in the first grave dug in Silver City, having been killed while punishing the Indians for an attack upon the new town; the brothers were Prospectors about the nation for many years.
Silver City was also the starting point for many expeditions hunting treasures such as the Lost Adams Diggings.
In 1893, New Mexico Normal School was established.
It was later known as New Mexico Western State Teachers College.
Silver City was assembled with high sidewalks in the downtown region to accommodate high flood waters.
A ditch 55 feet (17 m) lower than the initial street level was created in what was once known as Main Street. Businesses on Main Street began using their back doors on Bullard Street as chief entrances and eventually, were permanently used as the new front entrances.
Main Street now ends near the back of the Silver City Police Station, where the Big Ditch Park begins.
Mimbres archaeological sites are positioned throughout Silver City and encircling communities on federal, state, municipal, and private property.
The Apaches occupied areas in the vicinity of Silver City beginning in the late 1500s to early 1600s, based on archaeological evidence.
Silver City is positioned near the center of Grant County, at the southern foot of the Pinos Altos Range of the Mogollon Mountains.
New Mexico State Road 90 (Hudson Street) leads southwest 45 miles (72 km) to Lordsburg and Interstate 10, and State Road 15 leads north 44 miles (71 km) to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument.
Enumeration Bureau, Silver City has a total region of 10.2 square miles (26.3 km2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.04 km2), or 0.17%, is water. The small-town geology of the Silver City region is complex.
The climate of Silver City can be classified as a typical New Mexico cool semi-arid climate as stated to the Koppen system.
During the reconstructionfrom 1901 to 1964 when readings were taken at the town/city centre (which is cooler and wetter than outlying districts to the southeast) the coldest temperature recorded was 13 F ( 25 C) on January 11, 1962, and the hottest 105 F (40.6 C) on July 5, 1901.
Climate data for Silver City, New Mexico, 1901-1964.
Silver City was established as a quarrying town.
George Hearst assembled a smelter after the Silver City, Deming and Pacific narrow gauge stockyards reached Silver City in 1883.
The Santa Fe Railroad provided standard gauge rail service in 1886; and Commanche Mining and Smelting extended the 2-foot narrow gauge Silver City, Pinos Altos and Mogollon Railroad to Pinos Altos in 1906. Tourism, retirement and trade are the other primary components of Silver City's economy.
Silver City is home to many musicians and artists and has a grow downtown arts district. The Silco Theater, assembled in 1923, was renovated and re-opened on February 26, 2016 as a 156-seat improve movie home. Mimbres Region Arts Council (MRAC) has been titled #1 arts council in New Mexico for a decade and is the recipient of the 2013 New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.
MRAC presents the Silver City Blues Festival each May and Pickamania a Bluegrass, Americana, Folk and acoustic festival each September, in addition to a number of other arts affairs throughout the year.
Grant County Community Concert Association presents various performance affairs each fall, winter, and spring. The first Southwest Festival of the Written Word was held in 2013, at multiple venues in historic downtown Silver City.
The Red Paint Pow Wow, Chicano Music Festival, Silver City Clay Festival, Red Dot Studio & Gallery Tours, Chocolate Fantasia, Gila River Festival, Red Hot Children's Fiesta, Tamal Fiesta y Mas and the Silver City Fiber Arts Festival are also held in Silver City.
Public schools are in the Silver Consolidated School District, as well as one state-authorized charter high school.
The District covers the Town of Silver City as well as Cliff, Pinos Altos, Tyrone, and White Signal.
The fitness has five elementary schools, one middle school, and two high schools.
Aldo Leopold Charter School (middle school and high school) Silver High School Aldo Leopold Charter School (middle school and high school) Grant County Airport, positioned 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Silver City.
New Mexico State Road 90 The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is about 44 miles (71 km) north of Silver City, via the winding NM 15.
It is positioned 70 miles (110 km) north of Silver City on U.S.
Lake Roberts covers 72-acre (290,000 m2) about 27 miles (43 km) north of Silver City on NM 15 near the NM 35 junction.
Other lakes in the Silver City region include Bill Evans Lake, Snow Lake, Wall Lake, Bear Canyon Dam.
The Kneeling Nun is a natural modern formation positioned about 20 miles (32 km) to the east of Silver City along NM 152.
Alfred Shea Addis (1832-1886), photographer of Billy the Kid's mother's home, lived in Silver City and acted as sheriff in 1886 Poker Alice (Alice Ivers Duffield Tubbs Huckert), frontier gambler, lived for a time in Silver City as well as in Colorado and South Dakota senator, interval up in Silver City Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, outlaws who were familiar with every saloon and "soiled dove" in Silver City Geronimo, born at the headwaters of the Gila River (north of Silver City) Mangas Coloradas or "Dasoda-hae" (known as "Red Sleeves"), Apache war prestige who roamed the Silver City region Nana, Apache war prestige who roamed the Silver City region James Tenney (1934-2006), composer, born in Silver City Silver City was the finish line in the 2001 movie Rat Race, in which a several citizens race from Las Vegas to a locker including $2 million in Silver City's train station.
In reality, there is no longer a train station in Silver City.
Silver City is mentioned in the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood, whose screenplay was written by Paul Thomas Anderson and was based on the 1927 novel Oil! Doheny, a prospector and petroleum tycoon living in the Silver City region (near Kingston).
In the movie, Henry, the man claiming to be Daniel's half-brother, says that he had been in Silver City for two years drilling on his own.
In the 1956 film Backlash, Jim Slater, played by Richard Widmark, goes to Silver City with the body of the deputy sheriff he killed.
In the 2010 road trip movie Friendship!, the two friends Veit and Tom are stopped and arrested by Silver City police because of driving naked.
Since their car was damaged, they need to rest and raise some cash in Silver City for getting their car repaired before being able to continue their trip.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Silver City town, New Mexico".
"Destruction of Main Street", Silver City Daily Press, July 9, 1975, p.
Silver City Narrow Gauge.
New Mexico Business Journal, 9-07, p.
New Mexico Business Journal, 9-07, p.
VISIT SILVER CITY.
Southwestern New Mexico: Kneeling Nun Legend.
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