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· New Mexico
Chaves County
Chaves County is a county in New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,157. Its county seat is Roswell. Chaves County was named for Colonel Jose Francisco Chaves, a military leader there during the Civil War and later in Navajo campaigns. The county was created by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature on February 25, 1889, out of land from Lincoln County.
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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)
- Census ID (PID6)
- 131017
- FIPS state
- 35
- FIPS county
- 005
- FIPS place
- 99005
- Census record name
- COUNTY OF CHAVES
- Mailing address
- PO BOX 1817, ROSWELL 88202