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Las Vegas, often known simply as Vegas, is a city in and the county seat of San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. [6] Once two separate municipalities (one a city and the other a town), both were named Las Vegas—West Las Vegas ("Old Town") and East Las Vegas ("New Town"); they are separated by the Gallinas River and retain distinct characters and separate, rival school districts.
38.740 mi [41] (62.346 km) State Road 122 ( NM 122) is a 38.740-mile-long (62.346 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 122's western terminus is at Interstate 40 (I-40) west of Thoreau, and the eastern terminus is at I-40 in Grants. NM 122 follows the routing of the former Historic U.S. Route 66.
Acequia Madre (Las Vegas, New Mexico) / 35.58472°N 105.22389°W / 35.58472; -105.22389. The Acequia Madre, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, is a historic acequia which was built at the time of Las Vegas' settlement in 1835–36. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
A Rand McNally map appended to the 1914 edition of The New Student's Reference Work. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways. One of its cartographers, John Brink, invented a system that was first published in 1917 on a map of Peoria, Illinois. In addition to creating maps with numbered roads ...
December 16, 1974. Designated NMSRCP. December 8, 1972. The Las Vegas Plaza is a plaza and historic district in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The plaza was originally laid out in 1835 by Mexican settlers and is surrounded by a number of historically and architecturally notable buildings. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Land grants by the Spanish and Mexicans between 1692 and 1846 numbered 291 in New Mexico, four partly in New Mexico and partly in Colorado, and three in Colorado. The land area of grants totaled tens of thousands of square miles. "The two major types of land grants were private grants made to individuals, and communal grants made to groups of ...
The Railroad Avenue Historic District is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It encompasses three blocks of Railroad Avenue between Jackson Street and University Avenue, as well as the first block of Lincoln Avenue. The buildings in the district were directly related to the presence ...
The Bridge Street Historic District in Las Vegas, New Mexico was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included 28 contributing buildings and a contributing structure. It includes the Gallinas River Bridge and the 100 block of Bridge St., which was a wagon road before 1879.