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Hobbs (NM Hwy 18 and US Hwy 180/62)
Named for the family of James Hobbs, which homesteaded there in 1907, Hobbs became first a trading village for ranchers and then a major oil town after the discovery of oil by the Midwest Oil Company in 1928.
August 2000
Hobbs
August 2000
Hobbs
Llano Estacado, Staked Plain, is the southern part of the High Plains province, a high plateau of 32,000 square miles in east New Mexico and west Texas. Crops irrigated by "fossil" water pumped from underground sandstones. Deeper are prolific oil and gas pools, the liquid black gold of southeast New Mexico. Elevation 3,610 feet. This photograph is taken in the western part of Hobbs.
August 2000
Hogback (US Hwy 64)
(US Hwy 64 leads to Shiprock, 4 miles west, and Waterflow, 9 miles east)
March 2000
Steeply dipping strata define the western edge of the San Juan basin. To the west, older geologic formations are exposed toward the Defiance uplift whereas basinward they are downwarped thousands of feet beneath younger rock units. Vast coal, uranium, oil and gas resources occur in the strata buried within the basin. Elevation 5,050 feet.
Hogback
March 2000
Hogback
March 2000
Hope (US Hwy 82, Mile Marker 86)
US Hwy 82 leads to Artesia, 17 miles east, and Elk, 38 miles west, passing NM Hwy 24, at Mile Marker 59, and NM Hwy 13, at Mile Marker 73)
August 2000
Hope
August 2000
Humble City (NM Hwy 18, Mile Marker 59)
NM Hwy 18 leads to Hobbs, 7 miles southeast, and 15 miles northwest.
August 2000
Humble City
August 2000
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