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De Baca County
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county in New Mexico, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Mexico
- Founded
- February 28, 1917
- Named after
- Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca
- Seat
- Fort Sumner
- Largest village
- Fort Sumner
- Total
- 2,334 sq mi (6,050 km )
- Land
- 2,323 sq mi (6,020 km )
- Water
- 11 sq mi (28 km ) 0.5%
- Estimate 2025
- 1,647
- Density
- 0.7310/sq mi (0.2822/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- debaca .nmgenweb .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
De Baca County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,698, making it New Mexico's second-least populous county. Its county seat is Fort Sumner. The county is named for Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca, the second elected Governor of New Mexico.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “De Baca County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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