Timberon, New Mexico
| Timberon, New Mexico | |
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| CDP | |
Timberon Lodge
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 Location of Timberon, New Mexico |
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 Timberon, New Mexico
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| Coordinates: 32°37′54″N 105°41′32″W / 32.63167°N 105.69222°WCoordinates: 32°37′54″N 105°41′32″W / 32.63167°N 105.69222°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Mexico |
| County | Otero |
| Area | |
| • Total | 20.2 sq mi (52.3 km2) |
| • Land | 20.2 sq mi (52.3 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 6,929 ft (2,112 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 348 |
| • Density | 15.3/sq mi (5.9/km2) |
| Time zone | Mountain (MST) (UTC-7) |
| • Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC-6) |
| ZIP code | 88350 |
| Area code(s) | 575 |
| FIPS code | 35-77950 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0912792 |
Timberon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Otero County, New Mexico and is within the Sacramento Mountains at the southern edge of the Lincoln National Forest, directly north of the Fort Bliss. The population was 309 at the 2000 census.
Timberon has a 9-hole golf course, as well as a lodge, a pool, a church, an airstrip and a volunteer fire department. The residents consider it a retirement and resort community. Children are bussed into Cloudcroft for public school.
Timberon is located at 32°37′54″N 105°41′32″W / 32.63167°N 105.69222°W (32.631675, -105.692254). Elevation is 7150 feet.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 20.2 square miles (52 km2), all of it land.
The land that now constitutes the community of Timberon was purchased from the State of New Mexico in 1933 by Judge Paul Moss. Moss had a hunting lodge there and cut some timber. In the 1960s the land was owned by Willie Farah, of El Paso, Texas who built an airstrip there. Development of the community really began when the property was sold to the North American Land Development Corporation in March 1969. The volunteer fire department was begun in 1974, the firehouse was completed in 1981 and the post office opened that same year. In 1976 a missile from White Sands Missile Range went awry and landed in the middle of the community. The road into Timberon was paved in 2005.
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