Pancho Villas Raid Historical Marker
Pancho Villas Raid Historical Marker is a locality in Luna, New Mexico and has an elevation of 4,072 feet. Pancho Villas Raid Historical Marker is situated nearby to the town Columbus, as well as near Puerto Palomas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Columbus Municipal Airport.
Columbus Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Columbus Municipal Airport is an abandoned airport in New Mexico. Its origins date to 1916 when it was used by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps as a military airfield during the Pancho Villa Expedition.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Columbus and Puerto Palomas.
Columbus
Town
Photo: Rodan44, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Columbus is an incorporated village in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, about 3 miles north of the Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of a 1916 attack by Mexican general Francisco "Pancho" Villa that caused the United States to send 10,000 troops there in the Mexican Expedition.
Puerto Palomas
Town
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Puerto Palomas de Villa, also known simply as Palomas or as General Rodrigo M. Quevedo, is a small town of 4,688 people in the municipality of Ascensión, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It borders the village of Columbus, New Mexico, in the United States. Puerto Palomas is situated 3½ miles south of Pancho Villas Raid Historical Marker.
Pancho Villas Raid Historical Marker
- Type: Locality
- Location: Luna, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
31.8276° or 31° 49′ 39″ northLongitude
-107.64141° or 107° 38′ 29″ westElevation
4,072 feet (1,241 metres)Open location code
853JR9H5+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 357612709OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
5483340
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