Midway, NM

Midway is a Chaves County census-designated place southeast of Roswell, where the 2020 census counted 818 residents. The community sits about nine miles from Roswell's center, with U.S. Route 285 forming its western edge and continuing south toward Artesia. That placement makes Midway part of the open agricultural and desert-road landscape around the Pecos Valley, while Roswell supplies the closest larger city and county-seat connection.

Roswell Independent School District serves the CDP, tying Midway's school routes to the larger city. Homes, ranch and farm properties, and long roads spread around the highway, giving the place a broad rural geography even though Roswell is close. The route toward Artesia keeps Midway connected to the southern Pecos Valley, and the Roswell road keeps it tied north. Midway's name fits the map: a small community positioned between larger destinations, with school, highway, and county connections doing most of the everyday work. The county's wide horizon remains close beyond the highway, with farm roads extending into the valley.