Tularosa, New Mexico

Tularosa
Tularosa Village Hall
Tularosa Village Hall
Motto: 
"City of Roses"
Location of Tularosa, New Mexico
Location of Tularosa, New Mexico
Coordinates: 33°04′31″N 106°01′03″W / 33.07528°N 106.01750°W / 33.07528; -106.01750
CountryUnited States
StateNew Mexico
CountyOtero
Founded1863
Government
 • MayorRay Cordova
Area
 • Total
2.82 sq mi (7.30 km2)
 • Land2.82 sq mi (7.30 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation4,515 ft (1,376 m)
Population
 • Total
2,553
 • Estimate 
(2022)[4]
2,593
 • Density920.0/sq mi (355.1/km2)
Time zoneUTC–7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC–6 (MDT)
ZIP code
88352
Area codeArea code 575
FIPS code35-79980
GNIS feature ID2413595[2]
Websitevillageoftularosa.com

Tularosa is a village[5] in Otero County, New Mexico, United States. It shares its name with the Tularosa Basin, in which the town is located. To the east, Tularosa is flanked by the western edge of the Sacramento Mountains. The population was 2,553 at the 2020 census.[3] During the 1990s and early 2000s, the town, north of the much larger Alamogordo, experienced moderate growth and construction as a bedroom community, especially in the housing industry. Tularosa is noted for its abundance of cottonwood shade trees and its efforts to preserve the adobe-style architecture of its past.[6]

  1. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  2. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tularosa, New Mexico
  3. ^ a b "Explore Census Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference USCensusEst2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ For census purposes it is called a village, but in New Mexico it is historically called a town. See, for example, Otero, Miguel A. (1903) Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior - 1903 Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., page 293
  6. ^ Tularosa, Village of. "History". Village of Tularosa, NM. Village of Tularosa, NM. Retrieved June 29, 2011.