El Morro Valley is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
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(CDP) in
Cibola County
Cibola County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,213. Its county seat is Grants. It is New Mexico's youngest county, and the third youngest county in the United States, created on June 19, ...
,
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, Ker ...
, United States. It includes
El Morro National Monument and the
unincorporated community
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of El Morro. The area was first listed as a CDP prior to the
2020 census.
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The CDP is in northwestern Cibola County along ]New Mexico State Road 53
State Road 53 (NM 53) is a state highway in the US state of New Mexico. Its total length is approximately . NM 53's western terminus is a continuation as Arizona State Route 61 (AZ 61) at the Arizona border west-southwest of Zuni, ...
; it is southeast of Ramah and southwest of Interstate 40 at Grants
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*Grant County (disambiguation)
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* Grant, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia
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*Castle Grant
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* Grant, Alabama
*Grant, Inyo County, C ...
. It is remotely located west-southwest of Grants
Grant or Grants may refer to:
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*Grant County (disambiguation)
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* Grant, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia
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*Castle Grant
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along New Mexico State Road 53
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(also known as the Ancient Way), and southeast of Gallup
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*Gallup, Inc., a firm founded by George Gallup, well known for its opinion poll
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.
El Morro is named after a nearby sandstone promontory
A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula). Most promontories either are formed from a hard ridge of rock that has resisted the erosive forces that have removed the so ...
with a pool of water at its base, a desert oasis which the Spanish conquistadors called ''El Morro'' (The Headland). The Zuni people
The Zuni ( zun, A:shiwi; formerly spelled ''Zuñi'') are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley. The Zuni are a Federally recognized tribe and most live in the Pueblo of Zuni on the Zuni River, a tributary of the Lit ...
call it ''A'ts'ina'' (Place of Writings on the Rock). Anglo-Americans called it "Inscription Rock". El Morro National Monument is located west of the community on Highway 53, along the old Zuni-Acoma Trail, an ancient Pueblo trade route also known as the Ancient Way.
El Morro is an artist community and home of the El Morro Area Arts Council, an art gallery, a trading post / coffee shop, cafe, RV park & campgrounds, feed & seed store, consignment store and healing arts center. El Morro is the social hub for a colorful array of artists, homesteaders and individualists who reside in a 1000+ square mile area, from El Malpais National Monument to the east, Ramah to the west, the Zuni Mountains Zuni may refer to:
Peoples and languages
* Zuni people, an indigenous people of the United States
* Zuni language, their language
Places
* Zuni, Virginia, an unincorporated town in Virginia in the United States
* Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, a ce ...
to the north, and Candy Kitchen to the south.
Demographics
References
External links
Old School Gallery
Along The Ancient Way - El Morro Valley Community Website
Timberlake - Ramah News
Census-designated places in Cibola County, New Mexico
Census-designated places in New Mexico
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