Taiban is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
De Baca 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.
Description
The community is located on
New Mexico State Road 252
State Road 252 (NM 252) is a state highway in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 60 (US 60) and US 84 in Taiban, and the northern terminus is in Ragland at NM 209.
Major inte ...
at U.S. Routes
60 and
84. Founded in 1906 as a ranching community, it was named for nearby Taiban Creek.
The town is famous for being the location where
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 ...
captured
Billy the Kid
Henry McCarty (September 17 or November 23, 1859July 14, 1881), alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who was linked to nine murders: four for which he was solely res ...
and his associates on December 23, 1880.
See also
References
External links
"Lonely church a reminder of once-robust town" ''Albuquerque Journal'', Leslie Linthicum, March 1. 2009
Unincorporated communities in De Baca County, New Mexico
Unincorporated communities in New Mexico
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