Santa Rosa is a city in and the county seat of Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Santa Rosa had a population of 2,850. It lies between Albuquerque and Tucumcari, situ
New wing, Guadalupe County Courthouse
The historic Guadalupe County courthouse in Santa Rosa was built in 1909. New wing visible at left.
Santa Rosa and other towns such as Vaughn and Fort Sumner in 1954.
The Llano Estacado, sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States encompassing parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. One of the la
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
…River at the intersection of Interstate 40 (I-40), U.S. Route 54 (US 54), and U.S. Route 84 (US 84). The city is located on the western edge of the Llano Estacado or "staked plains" of eastern New Mexico and western Texas. The first Euro-American settlement in the area was Agua Negra Chiquita, "Little Black Water…
Northwest escarpment of the Llano Estacado
Shaded relief image of the Llano Estacado. The escarpments marking the eastern edge of the Llano are visible, running roughly in a north–south line through the middle of the Panhandle. The western edge is on the New Mexico side of the border, with the Texas–New Mexico border running considerably closer to the western edge of the Llano than to the eastern.
The northern edge of the Llano Estacado in New Mexico
Lubbock, Texas, the largest city on the Llano