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Wiktionary
n. A city in New Mexico
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 15920
Land area (2000): 19.348295 sq. miles (50.111851 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 19.348295 sq. miles (50.111851 sq. km)
FIPS code: 01780
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.895940 N, 105.952134 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 88310
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Alamogordo
Wikipedia
Alamogordo may refer to several locations in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico's Sonoran Desert:
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Alamogordo, New Mexico, the 1860s community established as a Southern Pacific Railroad station after nearby 1861 & 1863 Hispanic communities
- '' Alamogordo Daily News''
- Alamogordo Museum of History
- Alamogordo Public Library
- Alamogordo–White Sands Regional Airport, SSW of the city
- Alamogordo/Alameda Narrow Gauge Railway, a visitor attraction with a working sixteen-inch-gauge track rail line
- New Mexico State University Alamogordo, a 2 year community college
- Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway, an 1800s branch railroad from the community
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Alamogordo Army Air Field, the November 1942 field (Alamogordo Field Training Station on 27 May, Alamogordo Army Air Base on 10 June)
- Alamogordo Air Force Base, the 1947 USAF name prior to becoming Holloman Air Force Base in 1948
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Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, an Air Force facility established by Executive Order No. 9029 on 14 May 1942
- Alamogordo Guided Missile Test Base, a portion of the Air Force range (1947 1st launch, now a NRHP site) and merged with the neighboring Army proving ground (1947 New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range, 1958 White Sands Missile Range)
- Alamogordo Public Schools, the school system for an area of Otero County
Usage examples of "alamogordo".
Joe remembered best was what Oppy said when they were alone in Alamogordo, after the half-track and jeeps had finally appeared and towed them to the base.
In my innocence, it did not even occur to me that the sword Alamogordo might have summoned her on my behalf.
The party from the Alamogordo base had lost a track and lost time, but would still meet them at the fence.
I told them they were trespassing on the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range and would have to leave.
Shaw would get sent to the territorial prison in Alamogordo, and not a hell of a lot of men walked out of such places.
From Lordburg, from Deming, from Alamogordo and Albuquerque, from Socorro and Santa Fe, they came.
Coral Lorenzen, author of The Great Flying Saucer Hoax and an international director of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, immediately followed through on the startling rumors by putting in a call to Terry Clarke of KALG Radio in Alamogordo, nine miles east of Holloman.
If so, Alamogordo must have sent out its summons at the moment we made contact with the hunters poised over their kill, if not before.
Swallowing the taste of bile, with Alamogordo in my hand, I stepped from the shaft.
Raging, I drew Alamogordo once more from its scabbard, held the blade high above my head so that the engraved map faced the robot.
I drew forth Alamogordo, held its cruciform up before me, looking at the englyphed blade for some hint of the future.
There was no crunching of brittle bone, no spurt of sluggish ichor as Alamogordo cut through the horror.
Aji-suki-takahikone lay like a carcass torn by dogs, Alamogordo buried halfway to the hilt in his belly.
I took Alamogordo from its sheath then, in a reflex-like instinct, and lifted the blade high.
In my right hand I held Alamogordo, its bright blade, englyphed with the map of our ancient trek to Treet Hoown, covered in small discrete droplets of blood red as blossoms.