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Alamogordo (/ ˌ æ l ə m ə ˈ ɡ ɔːr d oʊ /) is the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States. A city in the Tularosa Basin of the Chihuahuan Desert, it is bordered on the east by the Sacramento Mountains and to the west by Holloman Air Force Base. The population was 31,384 as of the 2020 census.
White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico.The range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio.
Alamogordo Daily News is primarily a local newspaper. It has a staff of reporters and news editor to write local news. It also carries state, local, and national news from the Associated Press. It covers the city of Alamogordo and the neighboring village of Tularosa. The other incorporated area in Otero County, Cloudcroft, has its own newspaper ...
Jessica Onsurez, Alamogordo Daily News. March 29, 2024 at 7:01 PM. The total solar eclipse's path of totality cuts across 13 U.S. States.While New Mexico isn't in the direct path, the state's dark ...
The Alamogordo Code Enforcement Department and Sides were awarded the 2023 Jill Robinson Award by the Code Enforcement Officer Safety Foundation and the Presidential Certificate of Recognition.
December 20, 1968. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT [a] (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project . The test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, nicknamed the "gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated ...
The Alamogordo Daily News, however, was unable to clarify the nature of the complaints against Hoffman and Sons. Owner Donald Hoffman has been in business since 1993 but was only accredited by the ...
Alamogordo Public Library is a city-owned library, but library cards are free to all residents of Otero County. [8] (. County government pays a yearly subsidy to the city for this service; in FY 2008 the subsidy was $35,320. [9] ) The library has 112,000 items in its collection, including books, videos, compact discs, and magazines.