Information On Roswell, New Mexico

New Mexico]] |subdivision_name2 Chaves County, New Mexico |government_type |leader_title Mayor |leader_name Del Jurney |established_date |area_magnitude 1 E9 |area_total_km2 75.0 |area_total_sq_mi 29.0 |area_land_km2 75.0 |area_land_sq_mi 28.9 |area_water_km2 0.1 |area_water_sq_mi 0.04 |elevation_m 1089 |elevation_ft 3573 |coordinates_display displayinline,title |latd 33 |latm 23 |lats 14 |latNS N |longd 104 |longm 31 |longs 41 |longEW W |population_as_of 2000 United States Census |population_note |population_footnotes |population_total 45293 |timezone Mountain Standard Time |utc_offset -7 |timezone_DST Daylight saving time |utc_offset_DST -6 |latitude 33°2314" N |longitude 104°3141" W |website http://www.roswell-nm.gov/ www.roswell-nm.gov] |postal_code_type ZIP code |postal_code 88201-88203 |area_code Area code 575 |blank_name Federal Information Processing Standard |blank_info 35-64930 |blank1_name Geographic Names Information System feature ID |blank1_info 0894171 |footnotes }} Roswell is a city in and the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico United States The population was 45,293 at the 2000 United States Census It is a center for irrigation farm ng, dairy ng, ranching manufacturing distribution (business) and petroleum production. It is also the home of New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI), founded in 1891. Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located a few miles northeast of the city on the Pecos River Bottomless Lakes State Park is located twelve miles east of Roswell on US 380. Roswell is most popularly known for having its name attached to what is now called the 1947 Roswell UFO incident even though the crash site of the alleged UFO was some 75 miles from Roswell and closer to Corona, New Mexico The investigation and debris recovery was handled by the local Roswell Army Air Field

History

The first non-indigenous settlers of the area around Roswell were a group of pioneers from Missouri who attempted to start a settlement 15 miles southwest of what is now Roswell in 1865 but were forced to abandon the site because of a lack of water. It was called Missouri Plaza. Van C. Smith a businessman from Omaha, Nebraska and his partner, Aaron Wilburn constructed two adobe buildings in 1869 that began what is now Roswell. The two buildings became the settlements general store, post office, and sleeping quarters for paying guests. In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the towns first postmaster. Van C. Smith was the son of Roswell Smith, a prominent lawyer in Lafayette, Indiana and Annie Ellsworth, daughter of U.S. Patent Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth He called the town Roswell, after his fathers first name. Image:Roswell New Mexico.jpg Roswell was originally a part of Lincoln County, New Mexico that included all of southeastern New Mexico, but in 1889 Chaves County, New Mexico was carved out of the larger county, and Roswell became its county seat. The Roswell, NM Post Office uses ZIP codes 88201, 88202, and 88203. In 1877, Captain Joseph Calloway Lea and his family bought out Smith and Wilburns claim and became the owners of most of the land of Roswell and the area surrounding it. The town was relatively quiet during the Lincoln County War (1877–1879). A major aquifer was discovered when merchant Nathan Jaffa had a well drilled in his back yard on Richardson Avenue in 1890, resulting in the areas first major growth and development spurt. The growth continued when a railroad was built through town in 1893. Image:ironcross.jpg During World War II a prisoner of war camp was located in nearby Orchard Park. The German prisoners of war were used to do major infrastructure work in Roswell, such as paving the banks of the North Spring River Some POWs used rocks of different sizes to create the outline of an iron cross among the stones covering the north bank. Later, the iron cross was covered with a thin layer of concrete. In the 1980s, a crew cleaning the river bed cleared off the concrete and revealed the outline once more. The small park just south of the cross was then known as Iron Cross Park. On November 11, 1996 the park was renamed POW/MIA park. The park displays a piece of the Berlin Wall presented to the City of Roswell by the German Air Force. In the 1930s, Roswell was a site for much of Robert Goddard (scientist) s early rocketry work. It is also the birthplace of actress Demi Moore musician John Denver and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey Mike E. Smith A World Golf Hall of Fame , Nancy Lopez was reared in Roswell (though born in California . A International Space Hall of Fame astronaut, sixth man on the moon Edgar Mitchell attended school in Roswell. Roger Staubach (later of the Dallas Cowboys played American football at NMMI, and Lewis Lloyd (later of the Houston Rockets played basketball there. The professional baseball record for home runs in a season, 72, was set in 1954 by Joe Bauman of the Roswell Rockets, who took up permanent residence there (the record was broken in 2001 by Barry Bonds . Image:RNM 07-03-2008 11;30;20PM.JPG Roswell was a location of military importance from 1941 to 1967, at which time Walker Air Force Base was decommissioned. After the closure of the base, Roswell capitalized on its pleasant climate and reinvented itself as a retirement community. Roswell has benefited from interest in the alleged Roswell UFO Incident and in more recent times the business community has deliberately sought out tourists interested in UFOs. In the early 1980s, a major manufacturer, Transportation Manufacturing Corporation which produced buses opened a factory in Roswell. The factory has opened and closed repeatedly, resulting in cyclical swings of unemployment. TMC stopped building buses. NovaBus used the same buildings to manufacture buses but has also closed. The plant was reopened by Millennium Transit Services in 2003. In 2002, Roswell was named one of the All-America City Award

Geography

Roswell is located at (75.0 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.07%) is water. Roswell has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSkor BShdepending on the particular subset of the Köppen system one uses).

Demographics

Image:JohnChisumBronze.jpg (a cattle baron)]] Image:Map-for-distances.jpg Image:risd.jpg Image:nmmi.jpg As of the 2000 United States Census there were 45,293 people, 17,068 households, and 11,742 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,565.2 people per square mile (604.3/km²). There were 19,327 housing units at an average density of 667.9/sq mi (257.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 70.96% White (U.S. Census) 2.47% African American (U.S. Census) 1.28% Native American (U.S. Census) 0.65% Asian (U.S. Census) 21.29% from Race (United States Census) and 3.31% from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census) or Latino (U.S. Census) of any race were 44.34% of the population. There were 17,068 households out of which 34.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.1% were marriage living together, 14.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.2% were non-families. 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.13. In the city the population was spread out with 28.5% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 93.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.7 males. The median income for a household in the city was $27,252, and the median income for a family was $31,724. Males had a median income of $26,554 versus $21,408 for females. The per capita income for the city was $14,589. About 18.7% of families and 22.6% of the population were below the poverty line including 31.1% of those under age 18 and 13.8% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Public schools

* Roswell Independent School District * Job Corps * New Mexico Military Institute includes 4-year high school and 2-year associate college degree programs.

Private schools

* http://www.gatewaychristianschool.us/ Gateway Christian School], a pre-K through high school parochial school (http://schools.privateschoolsreport.com/NewMexico/Roswell/GatewayChristianSchool.html statistics]) * http://www.valleychristianacademy.org/ Valley Christian Academy], a first grade through high school "interdenominational Christian school" (parochial)

Colleges and universities

* New Mexico Military Institute 2-year associate college degree programs. * Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell lt;/ref> a branch of Eastern New Mexico University (headquartered in Portales, New Mexico . The Roswell campus offers several certificate and associate programs. There are also bachelors and masters programs via ENMUs Instructional Television System (ITV).

Professional education

* International Law Enforcement Academy also known as ILEA-Roswell, an academy run by the United States federal government to train law enforcement officers from around the world in the latest law enforcement techniques.

Transportation

Airport

* Roswell International Air Center which is served by American Airlines

Bus routes

* served by Pecos Trails Transit.

Nearby cities

* Ruidoso, New Mexico * Artesia, New Mexico * Carlsbad, New Mexico * Clovis, New Mexico * Portales, New Mexico * Hobbs, New Mexico * Alamogordo, New Mexico * Las Cruces, New Mexico * El Paso, Texas * Lubbock, Texas * Littlefield, Texas

Major highways

* U.S. Route 70 * U.S. Route 285 * U.S. Route 380

Notable residents

*James F. Hinkle – Mayor of Roswell, 1904–1906, New Mexico State Senator, 1912–1916, Governor of New Mexico, 1923–1925 *Demi Moore – Actress *John Denver – Folk singer *Nancy Lopez – LPGA golfer

In popular culture

* In the movie [[BASEketball]]there is a team called the Roswell Aliens. * In an episode of [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]] "Little Green Men (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) , Quark (Star Trek) Rom (Star Trek) and Nog are accidentally thrust back in time to Roswell in 1947 while on their way to Starfleet Academy Their presence there is later covered up by the humans as a "crashed weather balloon", going along with the conspiracy theory. * On the television series [[The X-Files]]in the episode called "The Unnatural", Arthur Dales brother, who is also named Arthur Dales, recounts a tale about a talented alien baseball player named Josh Exley who hid amongst an all-African-American team called the Roswell Grays in Roswell, New Mexico, during the 1940s. * The final level of [[Tony Hawks Pro Skater]] is located in a version of the Roswell Army Air Field, in which UFOs and studies on aliens can be spotted. * Roswell is mentioned at the turning point in the movie [[Independence Day (film)|Independence Day]]when it is shown that Area 51 conceals a top secret facility housing a repaired attacker and three alien bodies recovered from Roswell in 1947. * A hit teen drama, [[Roswell (TV series)|Roswell]] aired in the late 1990s and early 2000s, focuses on four teenage Extraterrestrial life in popular culture human hybridism , Max Evans Isabel Evans Michael Guerin and Tess Harding living in Roswell, New Mexico. They are survivors of the 1947 Unidentified flying object crash popularly known as Roswell UFO Incident * The American band Splitsville sings about the alien incident in their song "Home" (from the album Ultrasound. The lyrics are sung from the point of view of the alien, who states, "I might as well...land in Roswell". * An episode of [[Futurama]] "Roswell That Ends Well , takes place in 1947 Roswell, New Mexico when Fry accidentally gets the crew transported back in time, and the authorities mistake Benders disassembled body for a UFO and Dr. Zoidberg for an alien. * In Walt Disney Pictures 2002 film, Lilo & Stitch the former CIA agent, Cobra Bubbles is mentioned having met with the Grand Councilwoman of the Galactic Federation "at Roswell".

Local industry

* Roswell is home to Leprino Foods, one of the worlds largest mozzarella factories.lt;/ref>

See also

* Llano Estacado * Eastern New Mexico - a region just to the north of Roswell * Roswell UFO Incident * Alien autopsy * Roswell (TV series) * Roswell That Ends Well * Little Green Men (DS9 episode) * Walker Air Force Base * UFO

References

*City Map, Roswell, New Mexico Map. Roswell: Roswell Printing. 1976.

External links

*http://www.roswellmysteries.com The City of Roswell, NM] - Welcome to the City of Roswell. Visitors welcome! *http://www.UFOfestivalRoswell.com The Amazing Roswell UFO Festival] *http://wafbmuseum.org Walker Air Force Base Museum] *http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/newmex/bitterlake/index.html Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge] - Straddling the Pecos River, Bitter Lake NWR is truly a jewel, a wetland oasis inhabited by a diverse abundance of wildlife species. The Refuge protects and provides habitats for some of New Mexicos most rare and unusual creatures.. Image:bitterlake.jpg| *http://www.roswellmuseum.org Roswell Museum & Art Center] - features http://www.roswellmuseum.org/exhibitions/current/goddard.html Robert Goddards rockets] as well as art by Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth Hurd. Image:RoswellMuseum.jpg| *http://www.roswellnm.org Roswell Chamber of Commerce] Image:RoswellChamber.jpg *http://www.roswellfiles.com/storytellers/forbes.htm Forbes article on Roswell] *http://www.roswellamoca.org Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art] - permanent collection of the artwork done by the 170+ artists of the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program *http://www.rair.org Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program] *http://www.iufomrc.com/ Roswell International UFO Museum & Research Center] Image:Roswell UFO Museum.jpg *http://www.roswellmysteries.com/index.aspx?pk20 Spring River Zoo] - Roswells Spring River Zoo, New Mexicos only free zoo. *http://www.lastplace.com/0Roswell/Visitation/Tour/tourGuide.htm Documentation on Roswell by Dr. Rodney Chang (Pygoya), Honolulu/HI] * http://www.risd.k12.nm.us/ Roswell Independent School District Homepage] * http://www.roswell.enmu.edu/ Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Homepage] Category:Populated places established in 1869 Category:Roswell, New Mexico Category:Cities in New Mexico Category:Roswell UFO incident Category:Chaves County, New Mexico Category:County seats in New Mexico Category:Micropolitan areas of New Mexico Category:UFO-related locations ar:روزويل، نيومكسيكو bn:রজওয়েল, নিউ মেক্সিকো bg:Розуел (Ню Мексико) ca:Roswell cs:Roswell (Nové Mexiko) da:Roswell de:Roswell (New Mexico) es:Roswell (Nuevo México) eo:Roswell (Nov-Meksiko) fa:راسول، نیومکزیکو fr:Roswell (Nouveau-Mexique) ko:로스웰 (뉴멕시코 주) id:Roswell, New Mexico it:Roswell (Nuovo Messico) hu:Roswell (Új-Mexikó) nl:Roswell (New Mexico) ja:ロズウェル (ニューメキシコ州) no:Roswell (New Mexico) pl:Roswell (Nowy Meksyk) pt:Roswell ro:Roswell, New Mexico ru:Розуэлл simple:Roswell, New Mexico sk:Roswell (Nové Mexiko) sl:Roswell, Nova Mehika fi:Roswell (New Mexico) sv:Roswell tr:Roswell, New Mexico vi:Roswell, New Mexico vo:Roswell (New Mexico) zh:羅斯維爾

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