Rogers (New Mexico)
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Location in New Mexico
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| Foundation : | 1908 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | New Mexico | ||
| County : | Roosevelt County | ||
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 59 ′ N , 103 ° 14 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Height : | 1288 m | ||
| Postal code : | 88132 | ||
| Area code : | +1 575 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 894127 | ||
Rogers is a place (Status: Populated Place) in Roosevelt County in the state of New Mexico in the United States .
geography
The community is located on New Mexico State Road 235 , 10.9 kilometers northeast of Dora . It is located in the eastern part of New Mexico, near the Texas border . The County Seat Portales is approximately 20 miles away.
history
At the beginning of the 20th century, numerous settlers reached the Great Plains and thus New Mexico in order to develop new living space there. In 1906, clergyman Andrew J. Maxwell left his hometown of Rogers , Arkansas, and moved west. In 1908 he established a post office in what is now the settlement area and named it after his hometown. Maxwell died in 1929. The Rogers settlement was built around the post office that still exists today.
Archaeological excavations in the vicinity of Rogers have found fossils from the Lower Cretaceous period , especially from the Albium . Rock studies assign these finds to the so-called Kiamichi slate .
Rogers has been the site of several meteorites . For example, a chondrite weighing 982 grams was discovered in 1974 , and in 1989 a meteorite containing the mineral ringwoodite was found.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Hixson Julyan: The Place Names of New Mexico . 2nd Edition. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 1998, ISBN 978-0-8263-1689-9 , pp. 302 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Spencer G. Lucas: New Mexico's Fossil Record 2 . New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 2000, ISSN 1524-4156 , pp. 54 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Monica M. Grady: Catalog of Meteorites . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-66303-2 , pp. 430 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Roosevelt County 102 meteorite, Rogers, Roosevelt Co., New Mexico, USA. Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, January 15, 2015, accessed June 28, 2017 .