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Place Name
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Alamogordo
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Pronunciation
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al-uh-muh-GOR-do
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Capital Of
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Otero County
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Population
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27,596 (1990)
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Location
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Otero County, New Mexico (NM), United States, North America
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Latitude
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32°52'N
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Longitude
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105°57'W
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Alamogordo
(al-uh-muh-GOR-do), city (1990 pop. 27,596), 
Otero co., S N.Mex., 68 mi/109 km NE of Las
Cruces, on E side of Tularosa Valley, a wide dessert plain; 32°52'N
105°57'W. Elev. 4,335 ft/1,321 m. Holloman
Air Force Base (1990 pop. 5,891), hq. of the 49th fighter wing and Ger.
Tactical Training Center is 10 mi/16 km WSW,
and the White Sands Missile Range (main entrance and facilities) is
located 45 mi/72 km SW of Alamogordo. Trinity
Site, where the first atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945, is
55 mi/89 km NNW. The city was founded in 1898
with the arrival of the Southern Pacific RR. Mfg. (refrigerators,
printing and publishing, wood molding, meat packing, concrete prods.).
Cattle, sheep; pecans, pistachios, fruit, alfalfa, timber. N. Mex.
State Univ. has a branch at Alamogordo. White Sands Natl. Monument is
18 mi/29 km WSW; White Sands Space Harbor,
Space Shuttle Landing Site, 25 mi/40 km to W,
in NE tip of Dona Ana co.; Internatl. Space Hall of Fame; the Mescalero
Apache Indian Reservation to NE, and part of Lincoln Natl. Forest to E
in Sacramento Mts.; Oliver Lee State Park to S; Cloudcraft Ski Area to
E; Tombaugh Planetarium and Theater; Alameda Park Zoo; Sunspot Solar
Observatory to SE near Mule Peak
(8,097 ft/2,468 m); Alamagordo White Sands
Regional Airport in SW of city. Inc. 1912.
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