Silver City
Silver City is a town in the southwestern part of New Mexico, USA. An old mining town, it is undergoing rebirth as a modest high-tech center and jumping-off point to a number of attractive areas in the mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
- Type: City with 9,700 residents
- Description: town in and county seat of Grant County, New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “San Vicente”, “San Vicente de la Cienaga”, “Silver City, New Mexico”, and “Silver City, NM”
- Postal codes: 88061 and 88062
Places of Interest
Highlights include H. B. Ailman House and Fleming Hall.
H. B. Ailman House
Photo: PA Stanley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The H. B. Ailman House is a historic house located at 314 W. Broadway in Silver City, New Mexico. Prospector Henry B. Ailman had the house built using his profits from the Naiad Queen Silver Mine in Georgetown; his business partner H.
Fleming Hall
University building
Photo: PA Stanley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fleming Hall is a historic building on the campus of Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico. It was built in 1917 as a facility to teach Science and Physical Education.
Silver City
- Categories: town in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Grant, Southwest New Mexico, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.7712° or 32° 46′ 16″ northLongitude
-108.2764° or 108° 16′ 35″ westPopulation
9,700Elevation
5,935 feet (1,809 metres)IATA airport code
SVCUnited Nations Location Code
US SVCOpen location code
854HQPCF+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 151675525OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5491487Wikidata ID
Q985526
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Silver City” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيلفر سيتي”
- Basque: “Silver City”
- Belarusian: “Сілвер-Сіці”
- Catalan: “Silver City”
- Cebuano: “Silver City”
- Chechen: “Силвер-Сити”
- Chinese: “Silver City”
- Chinese: “銀城”
- Chinese: “银城”
- Chinese: “錫爾弗城”
- Croatian: “Silver City, Novi Meksiko”
- Croatian: “Silver City”
- Dagbani: “Silver City”
- Danish: “Silver City, New Mexico”
- Danish: “Silver City”
- Dutch: “Silver City”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيلفر سيتى, نيومكسيكو”
- Esperanto: “Arĝenturbo”
- Finnish: “Silver City”
- French: “Silver City”
- German: “Silver City”
- Gilaki: “سیلور سيتي”
- Greek: “Σίλβερ Σίτι”
- Hebrew: “סילבר סיטי”
- Hungarian: “Silver City”
- Irish: “Silver City”
- Italian: “Silver City”
- Japanese: “シルヴァー・シティ”
- Japanese: “シルヴァーシティ”
- Japanese: “シルバー・シティ”
- Japanese: “シルバーシティ”
- Korean: “실버시티”
- Ladin: “Silver City”
- Mazanderani: “سیلور سیتی (نیومکزیکو)”
- Mazanderani: “سیلور سیتی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Silver City”
- Navajo: “Tó Diłhił Bikooh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silver City”
- Norwegian: “Silver City”
- Persian: “سیلور سیتی، نیومکزیکو”
- Persian: “سیلور سیتی”
- Polish: “Silver City”
- Portuguese: “Silver City”
- Romanian: “Silver City, New Mexico”
- Romanian: “Silver City”
- Russian: “Силвер-Сити”
- Serbian: “Силвер Сити (Нови Мексико)”
- Serbian: “Силвер Сити”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Silver City, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Silver City”
- Slovenian: “Silver City”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیلور سیتی، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “Silver City (Nuevo México)”
- Spanish: “Silver City”
- Swedish: “Silver City, New Mexico”
- Swedish: “Silver City”
- Tatar: “Силвер-Сити”
- Turkish: “Silver City, New Mexico”
- Turkish: “Silver City”
- Ukrainian: “Сілвер-Сіті”
- Urdu: “سلور سٹی، نیو میکسیکو”
- Urdu: “سلور سٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Silver City, New Mexico”
- Vietnamese: “Silver City”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Silver, New Mexico”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Silver”
- Volapük: “Silver City, New Mexico”
- Volapük: “Silver City”
- Waray (Philippines): “Silver City, New Mexico”
- Waray (Philippines): “Silver City”
- Welsh: “Silver City, New Mexico”
- Welsh: “Silver City”
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