Ghost Town

Old Hachita

Grant County, NM

Approximate location — plotted from published sources, not a site visit, and not a guarantee of access.

Adobe ruins of the Eureka / Hachita mining camp in the Little Hatchet Mountains, about nine miles west of the later railroad town still called Hachita. Silver, copper, and lead supported saloons, stores, and a smelter in the 1880s; after the El Paso and Southwestern arrived, the old camp became Old Hachita and faded in the 1920s. Roughly thirty weathered buildings and headframes remain on a remote dirt road south of New Mexico 9.

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RegionGrant County, NM
Coordinates (approx.)31.9140, -108.4328
ARPAArtifacts & structures are protected by federal law (ARPA) — take only photos, leave every relic in place.

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