Mosquero

History

The site was a water stop along the Dawson Railway, built in 1902 from Tucumcari to Dawson. The name in Spanish translates as "swarm of flies", reputedly from the flies that were drawn to carcasses of bison hunted by local native tribes. The village was founded in 1908 by Benjamin Brown, and a post office was established here in that year. The community developed as a farming and stock-raising and shipping point, with a dry ice plant, using carbon dioxide from local wells drilled into the Bravo Dome carbon dioxide gas field, which lies beneath Harding and Union counties. The railroad, absorbed into the Southern Pacific, was removed in 1950 and the population dwindled after the dry ice plant was destroyed.

Geography

New Mexico State Road 39 passes through the village, leading southeast to Logan and northwest to Roy. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Western Kingbird

  Tyrannus verticalis Say, 1823 · Aves
  53
• Western Meadowlark

  Sturnella neglecta Audubon, 1844 · Aves
  48
• Lark Sparrow

  Chondestes grammacus (Say, 1822) · Aves
  43
• Cassin's Kingbird

  Tyrannus vociferans Swainson, 1826 · Aves
  36
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  35
• Common Raven

  Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  34
• Horned Lark

  Eremophila alpestris (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  34
• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  29

Largest nearby schools

• MOSQUERO HIGH
  High · MOSQUERO · 48 students · 9.6:1 ratio
• MOSQUERO ELEMENTARY
  Elementary · MOSQUERO · 40 students · 13.3:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.6 — 2024-10-22
  29 km SW of Tucumcari, New Mexico
• M 2.6 — 2024-09-08
  34 km NNW of Nara Visa, New Mexico
• M 3.4 — 2022-03-31
  8 km S of Clayton, New Mexico
• M 3.8 — 2022-03-17
  13 km SSW of Clayton, New Mexico
• M 2.7 — 2021-12-06
  13 km ESE of Watrous, New Mexico
• M 2.7 — 2020-06-29
  5 km SSW of Newkirk, New Mexico