![]() From October temperatures cool off rapidly, and by November most mornings are below 32 ☏ or 0 ☌, but afternoons remains comfortable to warm all through the winter, with only 10.1 afternoons failing to reach 50 ☏ or 10 ☌ and only one afternoon every two years not topping freezing. Humidity in early summer is very low, but increases in late summer due to the monsoon, which, between July and early October brings the majority of the year's limited precipitation. 100 ☏ or 37.8 ☌ is exceeded on average during 30 afternoons each year, and the record high of 114 ☏ (45.6 ☌) was set during a notorious southwestern heatwave on June 27, 1994. Typical for the more southerly and lower elevations of the Intermountain West, summers are extremely hot during the daytime, with maxima above 90 ☏ or 32.2 ☌ for over four months on an average of 122 afternoons during a full year. Lordsburg has a semi-arid climate ( Köppen BSk), just avoiding designation as a desert climate ( BWk). US 70 follows I-10 to the east out of Lordsburg but leads northwest 153 miles (246 km) to its terminus at Globe, Arizona.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, Lordsburg has a total area of 8.4 square miles (21.7 km 2), all land. I-10 leads east 60 miles (97 km) to Deming and 120 miles (190 km) to Las Cruces, while to the west it leads 155 miles (249 km) to Tucson, Arizona. Lordsburg is in northern Hidalgo County, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and U.S. There are 12 motels and hotels in Lordsburg. As Lordsburg had one of the few motels in the Southwest that would accept black guests ( El Paso being a notable exception), it was especially popular with African American travelers in the mid-20th century during the end of legal segregation. At 641 miles (1,032 km) from downtown Los Angeles, Lordsburg can comfortably be reached by car in less than one day. Rest stop įor many years, Lordsburg has been a popular rest stop for people traveling to and from the West Coast by car on Interstate 10 and its precursor highway, U.S. The camp at Lordsburg also held captured German and Italian soldiers. The incident inspired an episode of the new Hawaii 5-0 series, "Ho'oani Makuakane", Episode 4/9 (original air date December 13, 2013). After a military investigation and court-martial, Burleson was found to have lawfully killed the two men. The other, Toshiro Kobata, died before dawn. One of the victims, Hirota Isomura, apparently died instantly. On July 27, 1942, shortly after the Lordsburg Internment Camp was opened, Private First Class Clarence Burleson, a sentry at the facility, allegedly shot two Japanese American internees under questionable circumstances. Lordsburg held as many as 1,500 Japanese Americans in a Japanese American internment camp operated by the U.S. ![]() Main article: Lordsburg Killings Japanese internees from the Monterey, Salinas, and Watsonville areas of California, at Camp Lordsburg in New Mexico during World War II. It is owned by the City of Lordsburg and is southeast, about one mile outside the city limits. In the early 1950s the airport was served by the original Frontier Airlines (1950–1986) which flew DC-3s on a route from El Paso to Phoenix that included stops at Las Cruces, Deming, and Lordsburg, as well as Clifton, Safford, and Tucson, Arizona. In 1927, Lordsburg was one of the stops on Charles Lindbergh's transcontinental Spirit of Saint Louis air tour. In December 1938, the Lordsburg Municipal Airport (KLSB) began operation. Hannett and the people of New Mexico an arrangement of the state song embracing a musical story of the Indian, the cavalry, the Spanish and the Mexican. In 1928, John Philip Sousa presented Governor Arthur T. In 1917, Governor Washington Ellsworth Lindsey signed the legislation making it the official state song. It was written by Lordsburg resident Elizabeth Garrett, the blind daughter of famed sheriff Pat Garrett. ![]() Lordsburg is the birthplace of the official New Mexico state song, " O Fair New Mexico". Local lore is that Billy the Kid washed dishes in Lordsburg hotel kitchens such as the Stratford Hotel, and La Fonda, the historic "inn at the end of the Santa Fe Trail" during his teenage years. The Continental Divide Trail starts at the Crazy Cook Monument and travels through Lordsburg. Lordsburg was founded in 1880 on the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The population was 2,797 at the 2010 census, down from 3,379 in 2000. Hidalgo County includes the southern "bootheel" of New Mexico, along the Arizona border. Lordsburg is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.
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