120
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$18,458
3.3%
America/Denver
87711
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Anton Chico, NM - History
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Welcome to the Anton Chico Home page. The Anton Chico Home page provides as much information as possible on Anton Chico. Knowing Anton Chico’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Anton Chico’s Home page, you will also find Anton Chico’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Anton Chico has a population of 120. 67.5% of Anton Chico’s inhabitants are Male, and 32.5 are female. 60.8% of Anton Chico is married and 69.5% own their own home. Household median income in Anton Chico is $18,458, and the individual median income is $18,472. Anton Chico’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(100%), White(85%), Other(15%).
Prior to 1786, when a peace treaty was concluded with the Comanches, Spanish settlements in New Mexico were confined to the Rio Grande valley and nearby. The reduced threat from the Comanches, the most numerous and dangerous of the Indian peoples surrounding the New Mexican settlements, permitted the expansion of the Spanish eastward into the Pecos River valley and onto the Great Plains.
The motivation for the Pecos Valley settlements was the growing population of New Mexico plus the need to defend the Spanish and Puebloan settlements in the Rio Grande valley from raids by Apache and other Indian peoples.In 1822 the government of New Mexico created the Anton Chico Land Grant, 378,537 acres (153,188 ha) in size.
Salvador Tapia and 36 others petitioned the government for the grant. In exchange they promised to take up residence in the grant area, to hold the land in common for themselves and future settlers, and to obtain firearms and bows and arrows to defend the settlement against Indian attacks. The initial settlers came to Anton Chico from La Cuesta (now called Villanueva), 20 kilometres (12 mi) upstream on the Pecos River.
However, Indian raids caused the abandonment of the settlement in 1827. Anton Chico was resettled in 1834, this time with successSeven settlements grew along 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) of the Pecos River. From north to south (upstream to downstream) they were Tecolotito, Upper Anton Chico, Anton Chico, Llano Viejo, La Loma, Llano del Medio, Dilia, and Colonias.
Anton Chico is the largest settlement of the seven. It was described in 1841-1842 as having a population of 200 to 300 people and built around a plaza designed for defense. The houses, surrounded by high walls, were described as follows: "The little village of Anton Chico is built in a square, the houses fronting on the inner side, although there are strong doors, on the outer.
The houses are of one story only, built of adobe...while the tops are flat. They have neither windows nor floors, and in point of comfort and convenience are only one degree removed from the modest wigwam of the Indian." As one of the closest New Mexican settlements to the Great Plains with its bison herds and Plains Indians, many Ciboleros (bison hunters) and Comancheros (traders with the Plains Indians) originated from Anton Chico and other Hispano communities along the Pecos River in the 19th century.Anton Chico achieved its maximum prominence about 1890 when it had a population of 900 people, all or nearly all Hispanic, and was a mercantile center for much of eastern New Mexico.
Subsequently, with out-migration the population and economic activity declined. A factor in its decline was the re-routing of Route 66 which before 1937 crossed the Pecos River near Anton Chico. Subsequently, Anton Chico was distant from major transportation routes.
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