Santa Rosa, New Mexico

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Santa Rosa, New Mexico

Santa Rosa is a town

Town

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in and the county seat

County seat

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of Guadalupe County

Guadalupe County, New Mexico

Guadalupe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of 2000, the population was 4,680. Its county seat is Santa Rosa, New Mexico....
, New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
, United States

United States

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. The population was 2,744 at the 2000 census. It is a small town between Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque is the largest List of cities in the United States in the US state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande....
and Tucumcari

Tucumcari, New Mexico

This article is about the city in New Mexico, USA. For other uses see Tucumcari .Tucumcari is a city in Quay County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States....
, situated on the Pecos River

Pecos River

The Pecos River or Rio Pecos, as it is sometimes known in New Mexico, arises near Pecos, New Mexico, United States, and flows for through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it empties into the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas....
at the intersection of Interstate 40

Interstate 40

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, U.S. Route 84

U.S. Route 84

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, and U.S. Route 54

U.S. Route 54

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. The town is in the llano estacado

Llano Estacado

Llano Estacado is a region in the southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas, including the South Plains and parts of the Texas Panhandle....
or "staked plains" of northern New Mexico

New Mexico

Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, in 1865. The name was changed in 1890 to Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Holy Rose") referring to a chapel that Don Celso Baca (the founder of the town) built and named after both his mother Rosa and Saint Rose of Lima.

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Santa Rosa is a town

Town

County seat

Guadalupe County, New Mexico

Guadalupe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of 2000, the population was 4,680. Its county seat is Santa Rosa, New Mexico....
, New Mexico

New Mexico

United States

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tucumcari, New Mexico

This article is about the city in New Mexico, USA. For other uses see Tucumcari .Tucumcari is a city in Quay County, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States....
, situated on the Pecos River

Pecos River

Interstate 40

U.S. Route 84

U.S. Route 84 is an east-west United States highway. It started as a short Georgia -Alabama route in the original 1926 scheme, but now extends all the way to Colorado....
, and U.S. Route 54

U.S. Route 54

Llano Estacado

New Mexico

History

The first European settlement in the area was Aqua Negra Chiquita, "Little Black Water" in Spanish

Spanish language

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe is a celebrated 16th-century icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. The image, also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe represents a famous Marian apparition....
and is indicative of the Catholicism

Roman Catholic Church

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of the Spanish colonizers

Spanish colonization of the Americas

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who settled in the area.

Santa Rosa was connected by railroad to Chicago

Chicago

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, El Paso

El Paso, Texas

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, and the world at large in the early 1900s.

Santa Rosa's stretch of U.S. Route 66

U.S. Route 66

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is part of film history. When John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck III was an American literature. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937....
's epic novel, The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

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, was made into a movie

Film

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, director

Film director

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John Ford

John Ford

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used Santa Rosa for the memorable train

Train

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scene. Tom Joad (Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

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) watches a freight train steam over the Pecos River railroad bridge, into the sunset.

Geography

Santa Rosa has many natural lakes, an anomaly in the dry Desert

Désert

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climate surrounding it. These are sinkhole

Sinkhole

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s that form in the limestone

Limestone

File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
bedrock of the area and fill with water, and thus the lakes are connected by a network of underground, water-filled tunnels. The most famous of these is Blue Hole

Blue Hole (New Mexico)

The Blue Hole of Santa Rosa is a circular, bell shaped pool east of Santa Rosa, New Mexico that is one of the most popular dive destinations in the US for SCUBA diving and training....
, a popular spot for diving

Diving

Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games....
, where frigid 64°F (18°C) water forms a lake over 81 ft (25 m) deep.

Santa Rosa is located at (34.942166, -104.683981).

According to the United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

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, the city has a total area of 4.3 square miles (11.1 km²), of which, 4.2 square miles (11.0 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.70%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 2,744 people, 898 households, and 616 families residing in the city. The population density

Population density

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was 645.7 people per square mile (249.3/km²). There were 1,024 housing units at an average density of 241.0/sq mi (93.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 57.47% White, 2.19% African American, 1.75% Native American, 0.87% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 33.13% from other races

Race (United States Census)

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, and 4.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 81.16% of the population.

There were 898 households out of which 35.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.1% were married couples

Marriage

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living together, 18.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.3% were non-families. 28.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.03.

In the city the population was spread out with 23.1% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 34.4% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 135.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 145.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $25,085, and the median income for a family was $28,782. Males had a median income of $20,161 versus $16,417 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

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for the city was $11,168. About 18.9% of families and 23.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.5% of those under age 18 and 23.9% of those age 65 or over.

Santa Rosa, New Mexico

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