Cotton City is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in
Hidalgo County,
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...
, United States. Its population was 388 as of the
2010 census.
New Mexico State Road 338
State Road 338 (NM 338) is a state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 338's southern terminus is in Animas where it continues south as Route C001 and the northern terminus is northeast of Road Forks at Interstate 10 (I-10). N ...
passes through the community.
The community was named for its
cotton gin
A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (); ...
, which serves the area's cotton farms.
Geography
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The U.S. Census Bureau is part of the U ...
, the community has an area of , all land.
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Demographics
References
Census-designated places in New Mexico
Census-designated places in Hidalgo County, New Mexico
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