The Needles

The Needles is a peak in Doña Ana County, New Mexico and has an elevation of 8,415 feet. The Needles is situated nearby to the locality Juniper Saddle, as well as near Yellow Rock.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Organ Needle.

Organ Needle

Peak

Photo: Tumbenhaur, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Organ Needle is the highest point of the Organ Mountains in the south-central part of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It lies in Doña Ana County, 13 miles east-northeast of Las Cruces and 4 miles southwest of White Sands, headquarters of the White Sands Missile Range.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Organ and White Sands Missile Range.

Organ

Village

Photo: Talltanbarbie, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Organ is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Organ had a population of 242. Organ is situated 5 miles north of The Needles.

White Sands Missile Range

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

White Sands Missile Range is a United States Army military testing area and firing range located in the US state of New Mexico. The range was originally established in 1941 as the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, where the Trinity test site lay at the northern end of the Range, in Socorro County near the towns of Carrizozo and San Antonio. White Sands Missile Range is situated 5 miles east of The Needles.

Butterfield Park

Village

Butterfield Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Butterfield Park had a population of 794. Butterfield Park is situated 6 miles northwest of The Needles.

The Needles

Type: Peak with an elevation of 8,415 feet
Description: mountain in New Mexico, United States of America
Categories: mountain and landform
Location: Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

32.35482° or 32° 21′ 17″ north

Longitude

-106.5725° or 106° 34′ 21″ west

Elevation

8,415 feet (2,565 metres)

Open location code

854M9C3H+W2

OpenStreetMap ID

node 357581024

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

5480910

Wikidata ID

Q49082719

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In Other Languages

“The Needles” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “The Needles (bukid sa Estados Unidos, New Mexico)”
Cebuano: “The Needles”

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