Roswell () is a city in and the
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
of
Chaves 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.
The population was 48,422 at the
2020 census,
making it the
fifth-most populous city in New Mexico. It is home to the
New Mexico Military Institute
New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI) is a public military junior college and high school in Roswell, New Mexico. Founded in 1891, NMMI operates under the auspices of the State of New Mexico, under a dedicated Board of Regents that reports t ...
(NMMI), founded in 1891. The city is also the location of an
Eastern New Mexico University campus.
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located a few miles northeast of the city on the
Pecos River
The Pecos River ( ; ) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, New Mexico, at an elev ...
.
Bottomless Lakes State Park is located east of Roswell on
US 380. Chaves County forms the entirety of the
Roswell micropolitan area.
The
Roswell incident was named after the town, though the crash site of the alleged
UFO was some north of Roswell and closer to
Corona. The investigation and debris recovery was handled by the local
Roswell Army Air Field. On the 50th anniversary of the Roswell incident, an annual UFO Festival was started. In the 1930s, Roswell was a site for much of
Robert H. Goddard's early
rocket
A rocket (from , and so named for its shape) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely ...
ry work. The Roswell Museum and Art Center maintains an exhibit that includes a recreation of Goddard's
rocket engine
A rocket engine is a reaction engine, producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law by ejecting reaction mass rearward, usually a high-speed Jet (fluid), jet of high-temperature gas produced by the combustion of rocket propellants stor ...
development workshop, and
Goddard High School is named after him.
Roswell's tourism industry is based on
ufology
Ufology, sometimes written UFOlogy ( or ), is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary claims, extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial hypothesis, extrate ...
museums and businesses, as well as
alien-themed and
spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed spaceflight, to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including Telecommunications, communications, Earth observation satellite, Earth observation, Weather s ...
-themed iconography. The city also relies on New Mexico and Americana related tourism
including the
International UFO Museum and Research Center. Local
American folk and
New Mexico music performances occur near Pioneer Plaza and in parks around the city. It is a center for
acequia
An acequia () or (, also known as síquia , all from ) is a community-operated watercourse used in Spain and former Spanish colonies in the Americas for irrigation. Acequias are found in parts of Spain, the Andes, northern Mexico, and what i ...
-like irrigated farming, dairying, and ranching; it is also the location of several manufacturing, distribution, and petroleum related facilities. Roswell has a history of
minor league baseball
Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is a professional baseball organization below Major League Baseball (MLB), constituted of teams affiliated with MLB clubs. It was founded on September 5, 1901, in response to the growing dominance of the National Le ...
. This regional pride has resulted in Roswell receiving the
All-America City Award multiple times, in 1978–79 and 2002.
History
left, The White family home, built in 1912, is now a museum

The first non-indigenous settlers of the area around Roswell were a group of pioneers from
Missouri
Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...
, who attempted to start a settlement southwest of what is now Roswell in 1865, but were forced to abandon the site because of a lack of water. It was called Missouri Plaza. It also had many Hispanic people from
Lincoln, New Mexico.
John Chisum had his famous Jingle Bob Ranch about from the center of Roswell, at South Spring Acres. At the time, it was the largest ranch in the United States.
Van C. Smith, a businessman from
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha ( ) is the List of cities in Nebraska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's List of United S ...
, and his partner, Aaron Wilburn, constructed two
adobe
Adobe (from arabic: الطوب Attub ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for mudbrick. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is use ...
buildings in 1869 that began what is now Roswell. The two buildings became the settlement's general store, post office, and sleeping quarters for paying guests. In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the town's first
postmaster
A postmaster is the head of an individual post office, responsible for all postal activities in a specific post office. When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization (usually sponsored by a national government), ...
. Smith was the son of Roswell Smith, a prominent lawyer in
Lafayette, Indiana
Lafayette ( ) is a city in and is the county seat of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, located northwest of Indianapolis and southeast of Chicago. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of Lafayette ...
, and Annie Ellsworth, daughter of U.S. Patent Commissioner
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth. He called the town Roswell, after his father's first name.
In 1877, Captain Joseph Calloway Lea and his family bought out Smith and Wilburn's claim and became the owners of most of the land of Roswell and the area surrounding it. The town was relatively quiet during the
Lincoln County War (1877–1879). A major
aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeability (Earth sciences), permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt). Aquifers vary greatly in their characteristics. The s ...
was discovered when merchant Nathan Jaffa had a well drilled in his back yard on Richardson Avenue in 1890, resulting in the area's first major growth and development spurt. The growth continued when the
Pecos Valley Railroad arrived in 1892.
[Myrick, David, ''New Mexico’s Railroads, A Historic Survey'', University of New Mexico Press 1990. ]
During World War II, a
prisoner-of-war camp
A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as Prisoner of war, prisoners of war by a belligerent power in time of war.
There are significant differences among POW camps, inte ...
was located in nearby
Orchard Park. The German prisoners of war were used to do major infrastructure work in Roswell, such as paving the banks of the
North Spring River. Some
POWs
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.
Belligerents hold prisoners of war for a ...
used rocks of different sizes to create the outline of an
iron cross
The Iron Cross (, , abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire (1871–1918), and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). The design, a black cross pattée with a white or silver outline, was derived from the in ...
among the stones covering the north bank. Later, the iron cross was covered with a thin layer of concrete. In the 1980s, a crew cleaning the river bed cleared off the concrete and revealed the outline once more. The small park just south of the cross was then known as Iron Cross Park. On November 11, 1996, the park was renamed POW/MIA Park. The park displays a piece of the
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete Separation barrier, barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Construction of the B ...
, presented to the city of Roswell by the
German Air Force.
Roswell was a location of military importance from 1941 to 1967. In 1967, the
Walker Air Force Base was decommissioned. After the closure of the base, Roswell capitalized on its pleasant climate and reinvented itself as a
retirement community.
Roswell has benefited from interest in the alleged
UFO incident of 1947. It was the report of an object that crashed in the general vicinity in June or July 1947, allegedly an
extraterrestrial spacecraft and its
alien occupants. Since the late 1970s, the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and of a
conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy (generally by powerful sinister groups, often political in motivation), when other explanations are more probable.Additional sources:
* ...
regarding a classified program named "
Project Mogul". Many
UFO proponents maintain that an alien craft was found and its occupants were captured, and that the military then engaged in a cover-up. In recent times, the business community has deliberately sought out tourists interested in UFOs, science fiction, and aliens.
Roswell hosted the
record-breaking skydive by
Felix Baumgartner on October 14, 2012.
Geography
Roswell is located in the
High Great Plains
The Great Plains is a broad expanse of plain, flatland in North America. The region stretches east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland. They are the western part of the Interior Plains, which include th ...
of southeastern
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 ...
, approximately west of the
Pecos River
The Pecos River ( ; ) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, New Mexico, at an elev ...
and some east of highlands that rise to the
Sierra Blanca range. U.S. Routes
70,
285 and
380 intersect in the city. US 70 leads northeast to
Clovis and west to
Alamogordo; US 285 leads north to
Santa Fe and south to
Carlsbad; and US 380 leads east to
Brownfield, Texas, and west to
Socorro.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ...
, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and , or 0.18%, is water.
Climate
Roswell is located in both the
High Plains and the
Chihuahuan Desert and has four very distinct seasons, giving it a
cold semi-arid climate (''BSk'') according to the
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification divides Earth climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on patterns of seasonal precipitation and temperature. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (te ...
. Winters are cool, but usually sunny, and
snowfall
Snow consists of individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
It consists of frozen crystalline water througho ...
can occur. Spring is mild and usually warm, but can still be cold on occasion. Summers are very hot (as is common with the High Plains of
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 ...
and
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
) and averages around 30 days per year when the temperature rises above , which can be unpleasant. The North American
monsoon
A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in Atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annu ...
occurs during the summer, and can bring torrential downpours, severe
thunderstorms (with high winds and
hail
Hail is a form of solid Precipitation (meteorology), precipitation. It is distinct from ice pellets (American English "sleet"), though the two are often confused. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailsto ...
) and sometimes even
tornadoes
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the ...
. The rain can provide a cooling relief from the scorching great plains heat. Fall is usually warm and pleasant, but can be cold late in the season. Snow is possible generally from late October to March.
The record low in Roswell is on January 11, 1962, and February 8, 1933.
The record high is on June 27, 1994.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the
2020 census, there were 48,422 people, 17,929 households, and 11,844 families residing in the city. The
population density
Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...
was . There were 20,220 housing units. The racial makeup of the city was 54.8%
White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...
, 2.2%
African American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
, 1.5%
Native American, 1.2%
Asian, 0.1%
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the list of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islands. As an ethnic group, ethnic/race (human categorization), racial term, it is used to describe th ...
, 20.9% from some other races and 19.2% from two or more races.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 58.8% of the population. 26.0% of residents were under the age of 18, 6.6% were under 5 years of age, and 15.2% were 65 and older.
The median income for a household in the city was $48,298, and per capita income was $25,906 (2018–2022 in 2022 dollars). In 2022, 23.2% of the population were living below the poverty line.
2010 census
As of the
2010 census, there were 48,366 people, 17,654 households, and _ families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 19,743 housing units. The racial makeup of the city was 69.9%
White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...
, 2.5%
African American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
, 1.2%
Native American, 0.7%
Asian, 0.1%
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the list of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islands. As an ethnic group, ethnic/race (human categorization), racial term, it is used to describe th ...
, 22.1% from some other races and 3.4% from two or more races.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 53.4% of the population. 26.5% of residents were under the age of 18, _% were under 5 years of age, and 15.6% were 65 and older.
Education
Public schools
*
Roswell Independent School District
**
Goddard High School
**
Roswell High School
* Mountain View Middle School
* Mesa Middle School
* Sierra Middle School
* Berrendo Middle School
Private schools
* All Saints Catholic School, a pre-K through eighth-grade Catholic school
*
Gateway Christian School, a pre-K through high school parochial school
* Immanuel Lutheran School, a Junior Kindergarten through 9th grade classical school
* Saint Andrews Catholic School, a K-6 Catholic School
Colleges and universities
*
Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell is a branch of Eastern New Mexico University (headquartered in
Portales). The Roswell campus offers several certificate and associate programs. Also, bachelor's and master's programs are available via ENMU's Instructional Television System.
*
New Mexico Military Institute
New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI) is a public military junior college and high school in Roswell, New Mexico. Founded in 1891, NMMI operates under the auspices of the State of New Mexico, under a dedicated Board of Regents that reports t ...
offers four-year high school and two-year associate college-degree programs.
Sports
The
Roswell Invaders play in the
Pecos League of professional baseball clubs. The Invaders wear lime-green uniforms to represent the city's extraterrestrial connections. Home games are played at the
Joe Bauman Ballpark.
Previously, Roswell was home to the Roswell Giants (1923), Roswell Sunshiners (1937),
Roswell Rockets (1949–1956), and
Roswell Pirates (1959), who played in the
Panhandle-Pecos Valley League (1923),
West Texas-New Mexico League (1937),
Longhorn League
The Longhorn League was the name of a Minor league baseball circuit that operated from through in the Southwestern United States. In , it was renamed the Southwestern League and operated through before changing its name to the Sophomore Leagu ...
(1949–1955),
Southwestern League (1956), and
Sophomore League (1959).
Joe Bauman hit a minor-league record 72 home runs for the 1954 Roswell Rockets. Overall, Bauman hit .400 with 72 home runs and 224 RBI, 150 walks and 188 runs in the 1954 season.
Baseball Hall of Fame
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by a private foundation. It serves as the central collection and gathering space for the history of baseball in the United S ...
inductee
Willie Stargell
Wilver Dornell Stargell (March 6, 1940 – April 9, 2001), nicknamed "Pops" later in his career, was an American professional baseball left fielder and first baseman who spent all of his 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1962– 1982 ...
played for the 1959 Roswell Pirates. Roswell was an affiliate of the
Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Central ...
in 1959.
Roswell is set to host the 2025
Reno Air Races
The Reno Air Races, or Roswell Air Races, officially known as the National Championship Air Races, are a multi-day event tailored to the aviation community that took place each September at the Reno Stead Airport a few miles north of Reno, ...
, which will be held September 10-14, 2025. The 2024 air races were the last race held in Reno. Following a nationwide search to locate a new home, the Reno Air Racing Association moved the location of the 2025 air races to Roswell, New Mexico.
Transportation
Airport
*
Roswell Air Center is served by
American Airlines
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via its
American Eagle regional airline affiliate. Its former name, Roswell International Air Center, still appears in some references and on some local signage.
Bus routes
* Served by Pecos Trails Transit
Intercity Services
*
Greyhound Lines
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Major highways
*
U.S. Route 70
*
U.S. Route 285
*
U.S. Route 380
Railroads
*
BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...
provides freight services
Local industry
Roswell is home to
Leprino Foods, one of the world's largest
mozzarella
Mozzarella is a Types of cheese#Semi-soft cheese, semi-soft non-aged cheese prepared using the ('stretched-curd') method with origins from southern Italy.
It is prepared with cow's milk or buffalo milk, taking the following names:
* or mozz ...
factories. It is also the location of the former
Transportation Manufacturing Corporation factory, best known for producing various iterations of the
RTS city bus since 1987. The factory was operated by
Nova Bus from 1994 to 2003 and subsequently by
Millennium Transit Services.
Cultural attractions
Roswell's tourism industry is based on
aerospace engineering
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is s ...
and
ufology
Ufology, sometimes written UFOlogy ( or ), is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary claims, extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial hypothesis, extrate ...
museums and businesses, as well as
alien-themed and
spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed spaceflight, to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including Telecommunications, communications, Earth observation satellite, Earth observation, Weather s ...
-themed iconography. A yearly UFO festival has been held since 1995.
The Roswell Museum maintains an exhibit that includes a recreation of Goddard's
rocket engine
A rocket engine is a reaction engine, producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law by ejecting reaction mass rearward, usually a high-speed Jet (fluid), jet of high-temperature gas produced by the combustion of rocket propellants stor ...
development workshop, as well as a planetarium and a collection of fine art. The
Roswell Artist-in-Residence (RAIR) program has an associated museum, the
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art which features more than 200 artists in the collection.
Notable residents
*
Robert O. Anderson, businessman and philanthropist
*
Bobby Baldock, U.S. federal appellate judge (
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
*
Tom Brookshier, professional football player and sportscaster, was born in Roswell
*
John Chisum, pioneer, landowner, rancher
*
Louise Holland Coe, first woman elected to the
New Mexico Senate, first woman to run for
U.S. Congress
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Representatives, and an upper body, the U.S. Senate. They both ...
, 1894–1985
*
Max Coll, 15-term New Mexico House Representative (1966–1970, 1980–2004), grandson of James F. Hinkle
*
Ray Crawford, combat pilot and auto racer, born in Roswell
*
John Denver
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American Country music, country and Folk music, folk singer, songwriter, and actor. He was one of the most popular acoustic m ...
, singer and actor, born in Roswell
*
Sam Donaldson, TV journalist, attended NMMI
*
Pat Garrett
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and U.S. Customs, customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the Sheriffs in the United States, sheriff of Lincoln County, New Me ...
, sheriff, killer of
Billy the Kid
*
Robert H. Goddard, rocket pioneer
*
Susan Graham, opera singer
*
J.J. Hagerman, businessman and railroad developer
*
James F. Hinkle, Mayor of Roswell (1904–06), New Mexico State Senator (1912–1916), Governor of New Mexico (1923–25)
*
Nancy Lopez
Nancy Marie Lopez (born January 6, 1957) is an American former professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 LPGA Tour, 1977 and won 48 LPGA Tour events, including three women's major golf championships, major championships.
...
, LPGA Hall of Fame golfer
*
Jody McCrea, actor, retired in Roswell
*
Demi Moore
Demi Gene Moore ( ; née Guynes; born November 11, 1962) is an American actress. After rising to prominence in the early 1980s, she became the world's highest-paid actress by 1995. List of awards and nominations received by Demi Moore, Her acc ...
, actress, born in Roswell
*
Sergio de la Peña,
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the primary Land warfare, land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of th ...
colonel, political candidate, and former
Pentagon
In geometry, a pentagon () is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple polygon, simple pentagon is 540°.
A pentagon may be simple or list of self-intersecting polygons, self-intersecting. A self-intersecting ...
official
*
Gerina Piller, professional golfer
*
Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Ann Presley (née Wagner, formerly Beaulieu; born May 24, 1945) is an American businesswoman and actress. She is the ex-wife of American singer Elvis Presley, as well as the cofounder and former chairperson of Elvis Presley Enterpris ...
, actress and businesswoman, lived in Roswell when stepfather was transferred to
Walker Air Force Base
*
Clinton A. Puckett, 6th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Navy Cross recipient, raised in Roswell
*
James P. Riseley, Lieutenant General, USMC, retired in Roswell
*
Mike E. Smith, Hall of Fame jockey, born in Roswell
*
Austin St. John, first Red Power Ranger, born in Roswell
*
Roger Staubach, quarterback, Pro Football Hall of Famer, attended NMMI
Gallery
Main Street Roswell.jpg, Main Street
Federal Building and US Courthouse, Roswell, NM-side.jpg, Federal Building and US Courthouse
Goddard High School Roswell.jpg, Goddard High School
Goddard Planetarium Roswell New Mexico.jpg, Goddard Planetarium
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art-gallery, Roswell, NM-02.jpg, Gallery at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
Municiple Court, Roswell, New Mexico.jpg, Municipal Court
Roswell New Mexico City Hall.jpg, City Hall
Roswell New Mexico Public Library.jpg, Public Library
Chaves County Courthouse.jpg, Chaves County Courthouse
Hagerman Barracks, New Mexico Military Institute-02.jpg, Hagerman Barracks, New Mexico Military Institute
See also
*
Llano Estacado
*
''Roswell'' (TV series)
References
Notes
Citations
*''City Map, Roswell, New Mexico''. Roswell: Roswell Printing, 1976.
External links
City of Roswell – Official Website
{{Authority control
Populated places established in 1869
Cities in New Mexico
Roswell incident
Cities in Chaves County, New Mexico
County seats in New Mexico
Micropolitan areas of New Mexico
1869 establishments in New Mexico Territory
UFO culture in the United States