State Road 125 (NM 125) is a

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in the U.S. state of New Mexico maintained by the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT). The road, located entirely within

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, begins at US 380 near

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and ends at the Texas state line where the road meets the numerically continuous

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southwest of Bledsoe, TX. The road also has a major intersection with NM 508.

Route description

NM 125 begins at US 380 approximately east of Tatum. The road proceeds to the north and then the northeast before NM 508 branches off to the west toward

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. The road continues to the northeast to the state line and SH 125. NM 125 passes through mostly agricultural lands and oil and gas fields across the largely flat and featureless terrain of the

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History

NM 125 was created sometime after 1941 probably in the early 1950s as Texas began the uncommon process of unofficially signing SH 125's predecessor route,

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, as a numerically continuous state highway in 1955.

Major intersections

References

External links

{{osmrelation, 1485080, New Mexico State Road 125

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Transportation in Lea County, New Mexico