North Mesa Water Tower

North Mesa Water Tower is a water tower in Los Alamos, New Mexico. North Mesa Water Tower is situated nearby to the church Calvary Chapel of Los Alamos, as well as near the community center Los Alamos Sheriff’s Posse Lodge.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Los Alamos History Museum and Mesa Public Library.

Los Alamos History Museum

Museum

Photo: Marcin Wichary, CC BY 2.0.

The Los Alamos History Museum is housed in three buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of Los Alamos Ranch School, which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project; the Bethe House a short distance away, where Hans Bethe lived for a brief time after the end of World War II; and the Oppenheimer House, where J. Los Alamos History Museum is situated 1 mile south of North Mesa Water Tower.

Mesa Public Library

Library

Photo: AllenS, Public domain.

Mesa Public Library is the Los Alamos branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States. The library collection has more than 160,000 items which include books, CDs, DVDs, original paintings, and material in several foreign languages. Mesa Public Library is situated 1 mile southwest of North Mesa Water Tower.

Los Alamos County Airport

Aerodrome

Los Alamos Airport, also known as Los Alamos County Airport, is a county-owned, public-use airport in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States. It is located one nautical mile east of the central business district of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos County Airport is situated 1½ miles southeast of North Mesa Water Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Los Alamos.

Los Alamos

Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Los Alamos is a small town in northern New Mexico, about an hour northwest of Santa Fe. Its claim to fame is the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II, concluding the Golden Age of Modern Physics and heralding the Atomic Age.

North Mesa Water Tower

Type: Water tower
Categories: building and industry
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.89668° or 35° 53′ 48″ north

Longitude

-106.29511° or 106° 17′ 42″ west

Height

166 feet (51 metres)

Operator

LAC DPU

Open location code

857MVPW3+MX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 795467140

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=water_tower

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Highlights include North Mesa and Calvary Chapel of Los Alamos.

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