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FIPS code. 35-32520. GNIS feature ID. 2410771 [1] Website. www.hobbsnm.org. Hobbs is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 40,508 at the 2020 census, [4] increasing from 34,122 in 2010. Hobbs is the principal city of the Hobbs, New Mexico micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Lea County.
Hobbs Army Airfield was decommissioned by the United States Air Force on 5 May 1948 and the land reacquired by the City of Hobbs, New Mexico later that year. By the 1960's the airport became the Hobbs Municipal Airport however commercial airline activity was operated through the Hobbs Lea County Airport a few miles south.
The Laguna Plata Archeological District is a 3,360 acres (13.6 km 2) historic district in Lea County, New Mexico, near Hobbs, New Mexico, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It included 26 contributing sites . Field investigation was conducted by archeologists in April 2010. It is a seasonal use camp site which ...
The Western Heritage Museum & Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame is a museum near Hobbs, New Mexico. It features exhibits depicting the history of the Llano Estacado region of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas. Opened in January 2006, the museum is housed in a 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m 2) building on the campus of New Mexico Junior ...
Lea County is located in the southeast corner of New Mexico and borders Texas to the south and east. The Permian Basin, 250 mi (400 km) wide and 350 mi (560 km) long, underlies Lea County and adjacent Eddy County, as well as a large portion of West Texas. It produces 500,000 barrels of crude a day, and this number was expected to double in 2019.
Known for. High school basketball coach. Ralph Edwin Tasker (July 15, 1919 - July 19, 1999) was a high school boys' basketball coach. He coached for over 50 years, including 49 years at Hobbs High School in Hobbs, New Mexico. He won twelve New Mexico Boys' State Basketball Championships: one with Lovington High School (1949) and eleven with ...
Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base, located approximately 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Clovis, New Mexico. The host unit at Cannon is the 27th Special Operations Wing (27 SOW) also known as "The Steadfast Line". [2] It is under the jurisdiction of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) which activated at the base on 1 ...
The Hobbs News-Sun is a daily newspaper published Tuesday through Sunday in Hobbs, New Mexico, featuring news, sports and other features of interest to readers in Lea County. The News-Sun was the result of a merger between two of the many local newspapers that appeared in Hobbs in the 1930s, following the region's oil boom at that time.