Hatch
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village in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Doña Ana
- Total
- 3.07 sq mi (7.94 km )
- Land
- 3.00 sq mi (7.78 km )
- Water
- 0.062 sq mi (0.16 km )
- Elevation
- 4,062 ft (1,238 m)
- Density
- 512.2/sq mi (197.75/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-6 (MDT)
- Area code
- Area code 575
- Fips code
- 35-31820
- Website
- villageofhatch.org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Hatch is a village in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Hatch had a population of 1,539. The town is experiencing moderate growth, along with its outliers of Salem, Arrey, Derry, and Rincon. Hatch is widely known as the "best chile place in the World," for growing a wide variety of peppers, especially the New Mexican cuisine staple, and one of New Mexico's state vegetables, the New Mexico chile.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hatch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.