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Housing Units (2000): 227
Land area (2000): 4.068996 sq. miles (10.538650 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.027897 sq. miles (0.072252 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.096893 sq. miles (10.610902 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67772
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.182009 N, 105.340843 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79851
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sierra Blanca
Wikipedia
Sierra Blanca (also called the White Mountains) is a range of volcanic mountains in Lincoln and Otero counties of south-central New Mexico. It has the highest mountain in Southern New Mexico and the seventh highest peak in the state. The range is about from north to south and wide.
It is dominated by Sierra Blanca Peak (White Peak), whose highest point is at . The peak is located on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation, west-northwest of Ruidoso and 30 miles (48 km) north-northeast of Alamogordo.
Sierra Blanca may refer to:
- Sierra Blanca (Colorado), a mountain range
- Sierra Blanca (New Mexico), a mountain range
- Sierra Blanca (Andalusia), a mountain range near Málaga, Spain
- Sierra Blanca, Texas, a census-designated place
Usage examples of "sierra blanca".
Then they went to Sierra Blanca (Colorado) and made two songs and prayers and dressed the mountain in clothing of white shell with two eagle plumes upon its head.
Over his right shoulder, beyond the ramp, Brickman could see the towering summit of the Sierra Blanca, part of the mountain range barring the way to the east.
The Indian before him was dressed like an other Sierra Blanca Apache: loose-fitting gray cotton shirt.