Hurley, New Mexico
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Hurley is a town in
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,
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, United States. The population was 1,297 at the 2010 census, down from 1,464 in
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Geography

Hurley is located in east-central Grant County.
U.S. Route 180 U.S. Route 180 is an east–west United States highway. Like many three-digit routes, US 180 no longer meets its "parent", US 80. US 80 was decommissioned west of Mesquite, Texas, and was replaced in Texas by Interstate 20 and Interstate 1 ...
passes through the town, leading north to Bayard, and southeast to Deming and
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. The Grant County Airport and the hamlet and ranch of
Apache Tejo Apache Tejo (sometimes 'Tejoe' or 'Teju') was a white settlement and watering stop in the New Mexico Territory, 12 miles southeast of Silver City, New Mexico, Silver City, 3 miles south of Hurley, New Mexico, Hurley, and 2 miles east of the Grant ...
are approximately three miles south of Hurley. The large, open pit
Chino Mine The Chino Mine ("Chino" is Spanish for the "Chinese"), also known as the Santa Rita mine or Santa Rita, New Mexico, Santa Rita del Cobre, is an American open-pit mine, open-pit porphyry copper mine located in the town of Santa Rita, New Mexico e ...
and its related facilities lie just to the east of Hurley. According to the
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, the town has a total area of , of which , or 0.36%, is water.


Demographics

As of the
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of 2000, there were 1,464 people, 563 households, and 407 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 650 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 71.79%
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, 0.14%
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, 2.05% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 23.43% from other races, and 2.53% from two or more races.
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or Latino of any race were 60.31% of the population. There were 563 households, out of which 29.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.1% were
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living together, 13.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.7% were non-families. 23.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.08. In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.5% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 22.0% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 19.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.2 males. The median income for a household in the town was $27,404, and the median income for a family was $31,181. Males had a median income of $29,667 versus $16,528 for females. The
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for the town was $11,999. About 14.4% of families and 15.6% of the population were below the
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, including 23.4% of those under age 18 and 8.8% of those age 65 or over.


Popular culture

Scenes from the action Western film ''
The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture. He first appeared in 1933 in a ...
'' were filmed in locations around Hurley.


See also

*
List of municipalities in New Mexico New Mexico is a U.S. state, state located in the Western United States. According to the 2020 United States census, New Mexico is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 15th least-populous state with inhabitants but the List of ...


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{{authority control Towns in Grant County, New Mexico Towns in New Mexico