Watrous, NM

Watrous is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mora County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 99 residents. The community is located along Interstate 25. Watrous was named after merchant and landowner Samuel Watrous, who moved to New Mexico from Vermont in 1835. Watrous is in the Las Vegas City Schools. Its high school is Robertson High School. The short version is that Watrous carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Watrous: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Interstate 25 runs along the west side of the community. Watrous includes the Mora River. Watrous includes the Sapello River.