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Housing Units (2000): 667
Land area (2000): 3.082332 sq. miles (7.983203 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.082332 sq. miles (7.983203 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84845
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.384064 N, 106.497698 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
White Sands
Wikipedia
White Sands may refer to:
- White Sands, New Mexico, United States
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White Sands Missile Range, formerly the White Sands Proving Ground, a military installation in New Mexico hosting:
- White Sands Test Center, operated by the United States Army
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White Sands Test Facility, operated by NASA, and including:
- White Sands Space Harbor
- White Sands National Monument, adjacent to missile range
- Whitesands, a town in Vanuatu
- White Sands Shopping Centre, in Pasir Ris, Singapore
- White Sands, Alberta, Canada, a summer village in Stettler County
- White Sands (film), a 1992 Warner Bros. motion picture directed by Roger Donaldson
White Sands is a 1992 crime film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Daniel Pyne for Warner Bros. Starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L. Jackson and Mickey Rourke, the film is about a U.S. southwestern small-town sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Usage examples of "white sands".
He picked up a flat pebble and skated it across the quiet swells that lapped the white sands of the beach.
In the driving rain, therefore, my escort and I picked our way around the point, over black and white sands, and up a narrow by-water, which assured me at least that Lanko's navigator knew his trade.
Creslin is not listening as his thoughts skip along the eastern beaches, skirt the dissipating white fog, slip from one shattered hull to another and another, and from those to a schooner seemingly untouched save that it rests firmly on the soft white sands.
He picked up a small, flat stone, dropped it, and walked down to the water's edge, where in a thin line of white, the Gulf nibbled at the white sands of Recluce.
For a confused moment, F'lessan looked after Tai's towel-draped body striding across the white sands to her dragon and saw her begin to dress.