Country United States County Luna Time zone MST (UTC-7) Elevation 1,439 m Population 12 (2010) Area code 575 | State New Mexico Founded 1881 ZIP codes 88030 Zip code 88030 Local time Tuesday 1:09 AM | |
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Weather 14°C, Wind W at 6 km/h, 36% Humidity | ||
Nutt is an unincorporated community and ghost town in Luna County, southern New Mexico, in the American Southwest. It is located nineteen miles southwest of Hatch on NM Route 26 at the intersection with NM Route 27.
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Map of Nutt, New Mexico 88030, USA
History
Prior to the founding of the town, the area was the site of Lloyd's Ranch and Slocum's Ranch, and was subject to attacks by the Apache.
The town of Nutt was founded in 1881 as a station on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and was named after Colonel Henry Clay Nutt who served on their board of directors, and was instrumental in getting enabling legislation through the New Mexico Territorial Legislature for the southern spur of the railway. Wagon trains left Nutt for the mining communities in the Black Range until the Santa Fe ran a spur line up to Lake Valley in 1884. Nutt had a post office from 1881 until 1884, and again from 1899 until 1939.
Geography
Nutt is located on a rise between Los Uvas Valley to the east, and the Macho Creek Valley to the west. The rise is actually a pass through the remnants of the Good Sight Mountains, the tallest of which, Nutt Mountain at 5,940 ft., is 2.5 miles north of Nutt. Nutt Mountain is a volcanic plug composed of layered rhyolites, and has also been called Sunday Cone. The soil in Nutt is composed of eroded tuffs, andesites, latites and rhyolites.
Demographics
For the 2010 census, Nutt was part of the United States Census Bureau's Deming North CCD, Tract 5. In 2010, there were twelve people recorded for Nutt.