New Mexico: Metes & Bounds

New Mexico: Metes & Bounds

(Statehood: January 6, 1912; 47th State)

The name of this state is New Mexico, and its boundaries are as follows:

Beginning at the point where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude intersects the one hundred and third meridian west from Greenwich;

thence along said one hundred and third meridian to the thirty-second parallel of north latitude;

thence along said thirty-second parallel to the Rio Grande, also known as the Rio Bravo del Norte, as it existed on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty;

thence, following the main channel of said river, as it existed on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, to the parallel of thirty-one degrees forty-seven minutes north latitude;

thence west one hundred miles to a point;

thence south to the parallel of thirty-one degrees twenty minutes north latitude;

thence along said parallel of thirty-one degrees twenty minutes, to the thirty-second meridian of longitude west from Washington;

thence along said thirtysecond meridian to the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude;

thence along said thirtyseventh parallel to the point of beginning.