Lincoln County, New Mexico
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- Ancho — Ghost Town · Lincoln County, NM
Railroad-era ghost town on the former El Paso & Northeastern line south of Corona. Gypsum shipping and a short-lived boom left a depot-era footprint; the Anc…
- Fort Stanton Historic Site — Historic · Lincoln County, NM
One of the most intact 19th-century frontier posts in the Southwest: 240 acres and ~88 stone buildings (officers’ row, barracks, hospital, chapel, stables) s…
- Jicarilla — Ghost Town · Lincoln County, NM
Jicarilla Mountains mining camp northeast of Carrizozo / Ancho country, a thin Lincoln County ghost with sparse store and school-era fabric. Field pin for di…
- Lincoln Historic Site — Historic · Lincoln County, NM
New Mexico’s most-visited state historic site preserves most of the main street of 1870s–1880s Lincoln — epicenter of the Lincoln County War and Billy the Ki…
- Little Black Peak — Geology · Lincoln County, NM
Young basaltic vent that fed the Carrizozo lava flow (Valley of Fires malpaís)—one of the youngest and longest young basalt flows in the continental U.S. BLM…
- Smokey Bear Historical Park — Historic · Lincoln County, NM
State historic park in Capitan commemorating the real Smokey Bear cub rescued from the 1950 Capitan Gap fire in the Lincoln National Forest. Museum exhibits,…
- Valley of Fires Recreation Area — Geology · Lincoln County, NM
BLM recreation area on the edge of the Carrizozo Malpais—one of the youngest major lava flows in the continental U.S., a black basalt river frozen across the…
- White Oaks — Ghost Town · Lincoln County, NM
Gold-rush boomtown (1879–early 1900s) on the east side of the Jicarilla Mountains that once rivaled Lincoln as the county’s liveliest camp. When the railroad…