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The Jicarilla Mountains are a
mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
in Lincoln County,
New Mexico ) , population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano) , seat = Santa Fe , LargestCity = Albuquerque , LargestMetro = Tiguex , OfficialLang = None , Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
in the southwestern United States. The Jicarilla Mountains were named after the Jicarilla Apache Nation. The
Sacramento Mountains The Sacramento Mountains are a mountain range in the south-central part of the U.S. state of New Mexico, lying just east of Alamogordo in Otero County (small portions of the range lie in Lincoln County and Chaves County). From north to south, ...
lie to the southwest.''Carizozo, NM,'' 1:100,000 Scale Topographic Map, USGS, 1981 In 1850 the first gold seekers began to arrive to the Jicarilla Mountains, but it would take time before the first mines were established.
Jicarilla Jicarilla Apache (, Jicarilla language: Jicarilla Dindéi), one of several loosely organized autonomous bands of the Eastern Apache, refers to the members of the Jicarilla Apache Nation currently living in New Mexico and speaking a Southern Athaba ...
and
White Oaks The genus ''Quercus'' contains about 500 species, some of which are listed here. The genus, as is the case with many large genera, is divided into subgenera and sections. Traditionally, the genus ''Quercus'' was divided into the two subgenera '' ...
are two towns that were abandoned when the mines were no longer profitable in the early 1900s. The range was also called the Sacramento Mountains.


References

* Julyan, Robert (2006). ''The Mountains of New Mexico''. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Mountain ranges of New Mexico Mountain ranges of Lincoln County, New Mexico {{NewMexico-geo-stub