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Carlsbad (/ ˈ k ɑːr l z b æ d / KARLZ-bad) is a city in and the county seat of Eddy County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 32,238. [5] Carlsbad is centered at the intersection of U.S. Routes 62 / 180 and 285 , and is the principal city of the Carlsbad-Artesia Micropolitan Statistical Area , which ...
www .co .eddy .nm .us. Eddy County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 62,314. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Carlsbad. [2] The county was created in 1891 and later organized in 1892. [3] It is north of the Texas state line.
The largest chamber in Carlsbad Caverns, with a floor space of 357,469 square feet (33,210 m 2). Chocolate High A maze of small passages totalling nearly a mile (1500 m) in combined length, discovered in 1993 above a mud-filled pit in the New Mexico Room known as Chocolate Drop. Green Lake Room
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt ...
The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park, formerly the Living Desert Zoological and Botanical State Park, is a zoo and botanical garden displaying plants and animals of the Chihuahuan Desert in their native habitats. It is located off U.S. Route 285 at the north edge of Carlsbad, New Mexico, at an elevation of 3,200 feet (980 m) atop the ...
The Caverns Historic District comprises the central developed area of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The complex was built between the early 1920s and 1942, initially in Pueblo Revival style, and later in New Mexico Territorial Revival style in the area around the natural entrance to Carlsbad Caverns. The earlier structures are built of local ...
Cavern City Air Terminal ( IATA: CNM, ICAO: KCNM, FAA LID: CNM) is a public use airport in Eddy County, New Mexico, United States. [1] It is owned by the city of Carlsbad and located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) southwest of its central business district. [1] The airport is served by one commercial airline, with scheduled passenger service ...
April 26, 1946. (1946-04-26) (aged 63) Carlsbad, New Mexico. Occupation. Cave promoter/explorer. James Larkin White (July 11, 1882– April 26, 1946) was a cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of what is known today as Carlsbad ...