Historical Marker

Basin and Range County

Historical marker location:

I-10, Deming vicinity, New Mexico

( west of Deming Rest Area)

Basin and Range province of southwest New Mexico is of broad alluvial plains from which isolated fault block mountains rise like islands in a sandy sea. Indigenous peoples have used both the basin and range in their seasonal cycle. The Victorio Mountains to the south yield zinc, silver, gold, copper, lead, and tungsten.