Wagon Mound, NM

Wagon Mound is a village in Mora County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 266 residents. Wagon Mound is named after and located at the foot of a butte called Wagon Mound, which was a landmark for covered wagon trains and traders going up and down the Santa Fe Trail and is now Wagon Mound National Historic Landmark. Wagon Mound was previously an isolated ranch that housed four families that served as local traders. Wagon Mound Public Schools was founded in 1923. Wagon Mound consists of Wagon Mound Elementary School, which serves pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, and Wagon Mound High School, which serves seventh grade through 12th grade. A newcomer can read Wagon Mound through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Wagon Mound comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The shape of the mound is said to resemble a Conestoga wagon.