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Socorro, New Mexico Location of Socorro in Socorro County, New Mexico Location of Socorro in Socorro County, New Mexico Socorro, New Mexico is positioned in the US Socorro, New Mexico - Socorro, New Mexico State New Mexico County Socorro Socorro is a town/city in Socorro County in the U.S.
State of New Mexico.
It is the governmental center of county of Socorro County. Socorro is positioned 74 miles (119 km) south of Albuquerque and 146 miles (235 km) north of Las Cruces.
In June 1598, Juan de Onate led a group of Spanish pioneer through the Jornada del Muerto, an inhospitable patch of desert that ends just south of the present-day town/city of Socorro.
Therefore, the Spaniards retitled this pueblo Socorro, which means "help" or "aid".
Later, the name "Socorro" would be applied to the close-by Piro pueblo of Pilabo. Nuestra Senora de Perpetuo Socorro, the first Catholic mission in the area, was probably established c.
Fray Agustin de Vetancurt would later write that around 600 citizens lived in the region during this period. Mines in the Socorro mountain peaks were opened by 1626. During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Spanish refugees stopped in the pueblo of Socorro.
With no protection of Spanish troops, Socorro was finished and the remaining Piro were killed by the Apache and other tribes. The Spanish did not initially resettle Socorro when they re-conquered New Mexico.
Other than El Paso, there were no Spanish settlements south of Sabinal (which is approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of Socorro) until the 1800s. In 1800, governor Fernando Chacon gave the order to resettle Socorro and other villages in the area.
However, Socorro was not resettled until about 1815. In 1817, 70 Belen inhabitants petitioned the crown for territory in Socorro. The 1833 Socorro census lists over 400 residents, with a total of 1,774 citizens living inside the vicinity of the village. The mission of San Miguel de Socorro was established soon after Socorro was resettled.
Public school in Socorro (1898) In August 1846, amid the Mexican American War, New Mexico was occupied by the American Army.
In Las Vegas, New Mexico, Colonel Stephen W.
Kearny proclaimed New Mexico's independence from Mexico.
On their way to begin their assault on Mexico, American troops stopped in Socorro.
In September 1850, New Mexico became a territory of the United States.
At the time, New Mexico encompassed what is now the states of New Mexico and Arizona.
In 1850, the populace of Socorro was only 543 citizens .
The first military post assembled near Socorro was Fort Conrad, 30 miles (48 km) south of the town.
The New Mexico School of Mines (now the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) was established in Socorro in 1889.
"M" Mountain, west of Socorro Socorro is positioned 75 miles (121 km) south of Albuquerque, at an average altitude of 4,605 feet (1,404 m).
Socorro has a typical New Mexico cool semi-arid climate with hot summers which divide naturally into a dry early summer from April to June and a mostly humid "monsoon" season from July to September and mild, dry winters with very cold evenings.
Winters are dry even compared to the rest of New Mexico due to shielding from adjoining mountain peaks, and monthly rain totals from November to June have only once exceeded 4 inches or 101.6 millimetres (in May 1937).
Climate data for Socorro, New Mexico (1981 2010) In the City of Socorro 25.4% of the total populace was under the age of 18, 16.9% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% were 65 years of age or older.
Major employers in Socorro include the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NM Tech), the Bureau of Land Management, Socorro General Hospital, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, municipal and county governments, Socorro Consolidated Schools.
A large number of small businesses are represented by the Socorro County Chamber of Commerce.
The Elfego Baca Golf Shoot is titled after a former mayor of Socorro who railwaya gun battle near what is now Reserve, New Mexico, involving over 4,000 bullets that were fired over the course of 36 hours.
The golf shoot begins byt teeing off from Socorro Peak, also known as M Mountain, at an altitude of 7,243 feet (2,208 m), golfers proceed down the side of the mountain some 2,550 vertical feet to the one hole almost three miles (5 km) away.
San Miguel de Socorro San Miguel Mission Socorro Consolidated School District has approx.
2,000 students and 285 staff. Socorro has one enhance high school, Socorro High School.
The town is the locale of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, which is a state-funded research- and teaching-oriented university.
New Mexico Tech has approximately 1,500 undergraduate students, 500 graduate students, and 150 academic staff.
The Socorro airport positioned on the southern edge of the town/city received scheduled airline service by Continental Airlines in the early 1950s.
Zia Airlines, a small commuter airline, also made on-demand flag stops at the Socorro airport on their flights between Albuquerque and Las Cruces in the mid 1970s. Socorro was among the locations in the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), though in a somewhat derogatory sense, as Ellen Burstyn's character decides to leave the town for a new beginning elsewhere.
The aftermath scene of Burstyn's character's husband's fatal traffic accident at the beginning of the film, although implied as being in Socorro, was actually filmed in Tucson.
The Roger Corman movie Gas-s-s-s (1971) was filmed in and around Socorro, including a scene using the New Mexico Tech golf carts.
Actress Jodie Foster stayed in Socorro while recording the movie Contact (1997) at the Very Large Array fifty miles west of the city.
Eleanor Arroway) in the film, the Socorro airport was also the locale of meeting between Dr.
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& Walt, Henry J., "Rio Abajo: Prehistory and History of a Rio Grande Province" (Santa Fe: New Mexico Historical Preservation Program, 1984), p 248 Zarate Salmeron, Geronimo de (1966) Relaciones: an account of things seen and learned by Father Jeronimo de Zarati Salmeron from the year 1538 to year 1626 (translated by Alicia Ronstadt Milich) Horn & Wallace, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Section XXXIV (page 56), OCLC 2212 - 77018 "New Mexico Enumeration of 1833 and 1845: Socorro and Surrounding Communities of the Rio Abajo." (Albuquerque: New Mexico Genealogical Society, Inc., 1994.) p.xiii.
Ramirez Alief, Teresa, et al., "New Mexico Census: Socorro" pp.
The Territorial History of Socorro, New Mexico.
Socorro Consolidated Schools.
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