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Thoreau, NM -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Mexico
Population (2000): 1863
Housing Units (2000): 599
Land area (2000): 15.910951 sq. miles (41.209173 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002156 sq. miles (0.005583 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 15.913107 sq. miles (41.214756 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77530
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 35.414370 N, 108.223594 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 87323
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Thoreau (disambiguation)

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher.

Thoreau may refer to:

  • Thoreau, New Mexico, United States
  • Thoreau MacDonald (1901–1989), Canadian illustrator, designer and painter

People with the surname Thoreau:

  • H. D. Thoreau, Jr. (1923–2007), track and field authority

Usage examples of "thoreau".

The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core.

In the map on the wall behind his desk he put a pin at Tano Pueblo, and another between Crownpoint and Thoreau, about where Kanitewa had stayed with his father.

By the time I got back to Thoreau, Zoe had signed out of the Family Unit, AMA--Against Medical Advice.

He was the best around, and that first session, after I left Thoreau AMA and went to him for a consultation, and he said that even though he almost never did it he wouldn't refer me to someone else but he would keep me for therapy himself?

And his son, Jeremiah Cabwell, engaged in the harrowing triangular trade, risking his all, by Thoreau, in the dangers of trading sugar, for rum, for slaves, helping thousands of African immigrants come to our great country.