Las Palomas, NM

Las Palomas is a census-designated place in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 196 residents. The community is located near Exit 71 of Interstate 25; New Mexico State Road 187 also passes through the community. Others moved across the river to the east bank and downstream a couple of miles to farm on the opposite side of the river and to start a new town, first called New Alamosa, but that soon became known as Alamocita. Truth or Consequences Middle School and Hot Springs High School, both in Truth or Consequences, are the district's secondary schools.

The short version is that Las Palomas carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Las Palomas: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Alamocita was six miles north of Fort McRae which was established in April 1863 to protect these new settlements along the Rio Grande Valley from the Apache, along with the traffic along the river and the old road to the east in the Jornada del Muerto.