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The oldest published map of what was to become New Mexico can be found in an atlas published in 1597 by Cornelius Wytfliet,…

In 1988 Gilbert Chaves of Las Cruces, in conjunction with NMPS (then NMASM) Southern Rio Grande Chapter, researched the location of the south…

New Mexico’s boundary with Texas is commonly referred to as the “Clark boundary”. This designation ignores the fact that most of the surveying…

Anybody that likes John Wayne movies will love Jack Hays. In San Antonio he was called "a gentleman of purest character and of…

Opportunity came to Jesus Maria Gomez y Lopez on a memorable day in March 1862. While Confederate troops occupied Santa Fe, the nineteen…

While Surveyor General William Pelham tended his duties in Santa Fe, the initial fieldwork in the establishment of the rectangular survey system in…

… And he said in the sight of Israel: “Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon” … and the sun stood still; (Josh. 10:12-13) 

By an Act of Congress, generally referred to as the Compromise of 1850, New Mexico’s east boundary was set at the 103rd meridian….

New Mexico in 1917 had become one of the first states in the U.S. to license land surveyors, but by 1930 it was…