Raton
Raton is a city in and the county seat of Colfax County in northeastern New Mexico, United States. The city is located just south of Raton Pass. The city is also located about 6.5 miles south of the New Mexico–Colorado border and 85 miles west of Texas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,040 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Colfax County, New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “Raton, New Mexico”, “Raton, NM”, and “Willow Springs”
- Postal code: 87740
Places of Interest
Highlights include Raton station and El Raton Theater.
Raton station
Railway station
Photo: Magicninja, Public domain.
Raton is an active railroad station in the city of Raton, Colfax County, New Mexico, United States. Located at 201 South First Street, the station serves Amtrak's Southwest Chief.
El Raton Theater
Movie theater
Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The El Raton Theater, at 115 N. Second St. in Raton, New Mexico, is a theatre built in 1930. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Raton
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Colfax, Northeast New Mexico, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.8979° or 36° 53′ 53″ northLongitude
-104.4355° or 104° 26′ 8″ westPopulation
6,040Elevation
6,680 feet (2,036 metres)IATA airport code
RTNUnited Nations Location Code
US RANOpen location code
858QVHX7+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 151357952OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5486795Wikidata ID
Q990990
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Raton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راتون”
- Basque: “Raton”
- Belarusian: “Рэйтан”
- Bulgarian: “Ратън”
- Catalan: “Raton”
- Cebuano: “Raton”
- Chechen: “Ратон”
- Chinese: “Raton”
- Chinese: “拉頓”
- Chinese: “拉顿”
- Croatian: “Raton, Novi Meksiko”
- Croatian: “Raton”
- Czech: “Raton”
- Dagbani: “Raton”
- Danish: “Raton”
- Dutch: “Raton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “راتون”
- French: “Raton”
- Georgian: “რატონი”
- German: “Raton”
- Gilaki: “راتن”
- Hebrew: “ראטון”
- Hungarian: “Raton”
- Irish: “Raton”
- Italian: “Raton”
- Japanese: “ラトン”
- Japanese: “レイトン”
- Kazakh: “Raton”
- Kazakh: “Ратон”
- Kazakh: “راتون”
- Kirghiz: “Ратон”
- Korean: “래턴”
- Ladin: “Raton”
- Marathi: “रटॉन”
- Marathi: “रतॉन, न्यू मेक्सिको”
- Mazanderani: “ریتون (نیومکزیکو)”
- Mazanderani: “ریتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Raton”
- Navajo: “Kʼaiʼ Háálį́”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Raton”
- Persian: “راتون”
- Persian: “ریتون، نیومکزیکو”
- Persian: “ریتون”
- Polish: “Raton”
- Portuguese: “Raton”
- Romanian: “Raton, New Mexico”
- Romanian: “Raton”
- Russian: “Ратон”
- Russian: “Рэйтон”
- Serbian: “Ратон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Raton, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Raton”
- Slovak: “Raton”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریتون، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “Raton”
- Spanish: “Ratón”
- Swedish: “Raton”
- Tatar: “Ратон”
- Turkish: “Raton, New Mexico”
- Turkish: “Raton”
- Ukrainian: “Ратон”
- Urdu: “ریٹون، نیو میکسیکو”
- Urdu: “ریٹون”
- Volapük: “Raton, New Mexico”
- Volapük: “Raton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Raton, New Mexico”
- Waray (Philippines): “Raton”
- Welsh: “Raton, New Mexico”
- Welsh: “Raton”
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