New Mexico Tech

New Mexico Tech is a New Mexico historical marker in Socorro County.

intersection of College and Leroy avenues -- Socorro -- on campus of New Mexico Tech

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The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is consistently ranked as one of the top research universities in science and technology. Originally established as the New Mexico School of Mines, it was one of the original colleges established by the territorial legislature in 1889, with the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces. The school specializes in science and engineering, offering doctorate-level degrees, and conducts extensive research and development. It is headquarters for the Very Large Array located 60 miles west of here.

The Historic Preservation Division notes that its marker spreadsheet may be out of date and in places inaccurate, and that it does not know where every marker now stands. These pages carry the spreadsheet’s record; a marker listed here may have moved or may no longer stand. the program’s page ↗

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1882 · Territory Of New Mexico. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1883 · New Mexico. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · New Mexico. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1906 · Socorro, New Mexico (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1916 · La Joya, New Mexico (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

New Mexico, 1889, covering the location of New Mexico Tech, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — New Mexico, 1889, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Official Scenic Historic Markers program, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Department of Cultural AffairsMarker texts come from the Division’s published marker spreadsheet, reproduced with the Division’s written permission. Where that spreadsheet records a coordinate, the pin is the Division’s own; where it records only a highway and mile marker, an address, a junction or a named place, or where its coordinate contradicts its own highway, mile and county, the pin is ours, resolved on public road and place data and marked approximate.

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