Roswell, New Mexico

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Chaves County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 19 shown

• Chaves County Courthouselisted 1989
• Louise Massey Houselisted 1985
• New Mexico Military Institute Historic Districtlisted 1987
• Saunders-Crosby Houselisted 1985
• James Phelps White Houselisted 1978
• Diamond A Ranchlisted 1988
• Downtown Roswell Historic Districtlisted 1985
• Downtown Roswell Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2002
• Federal Building and U.S. Courthouselisted 2023
• Flying H Ranchlisted 1988
• Patrick Floyd Garrett Houselisted 1988
• Robert H. Goddard Houselisted 1988

Every listing in Chaves County

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

• Chaves County Courthouse, 401 North Main Street, Roswellfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Hondo Project, 12 miles southwest of Roswell on Rio Hondo, Roswellfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Northern Canal, Starts at the Rio Hondo and runs south in Chaves County, Roswellfederal building survey, 1 photograph

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1949 USGS Roswell North quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Roswell North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1979 USGS Roswell quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Roswell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 890 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Berrendo (historical)
• Fairbanks
• Mountain View
• South Spring
• South Spring Acres

Every fire recorded in Chaves County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Roswell: 5 producers, 5 unknowns, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Chaves County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roswell in 164 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 92 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 17 flash flood, 12 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Chaves County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 2,092 issues, 8,586 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 4 issues spread across its run from 1903 to 1910, 12,861 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 894171. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.