Ancho, New Mexico

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While our information shows that the community of Ancho is historic,^<1> we want to be sure that it has a presence on our website. As we gather information about Ancho, we'll be sure to add our findings.

Ancho would have been located within present day Lincoln County

While the community is gone, the present day location for Ancho is 1,860 feet [566.93 m] above sea level.^<2>

Time Zone: The area where Ancho was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Ancho, but it seems to be unique to this community.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

Community	Direction	Distance ^<3>	2008 ^<4> Population	Change Since 2000
Alpine Cellars Village	S	38 mi [61.2 km]	---
Capitan	S	28 mi [45.06 km]	1,510	4.64% increase
Carrizozo	S	21 mi [33.8 km]	1,047	1.06% increase
Corona	N	23 mi [37.01 km]	185	12.12% increase
Mountainair	NW	49 mi [78.9 km]	1,113	0.27% decrease
Ruidoso Downs	S	42 mi [67.6 km]	2,637	44.57% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Ancho.

The Commemorative
Quarter for
New Mexico ^<5>

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We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities. Since Ancho no longer exists, the following searches are actually centered on the nearby community of Ruidoso. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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Off-the-Road Links

The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Ancho:

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Panoramio.com

Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Ancho? Please visit the Map Page for Ancho.

Footnotes

<1>	We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Ancho, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation
<2>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around Ancho - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation
<3>	Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Ancho and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation
<4>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Ancho. - Return to Citation
<5>	All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation

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