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We would like to provide the residents of  Deming  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Deming Home page. The Deming Home page provides as much information as possible on Deming. Knowing Deming’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Deming’s Home page, you will also find Deming’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Deming has a population of 14083. 49.2% of Deming’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.8 are female. 42.2% of Deming is married and 56.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $103,260, and the average rent is $478. Household median income in Deming is $28,463, and the individual median income is $18,542. Deming’s Ethnic is the following: White(78.2%), Hispanic(72.5%), Multiple(12.2%), Other(5%), Black(2.2%), Asian(1.4%), Native(1%).


The city is within the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which was acquired from Mexico specifically to provide a southern route for a railroad to connect the United States with California. Deming was founded in 1881 and incorporated in 1902, and is named after Mary Ann Deming Crocker, wife of Charles Crocker, one of the Big Four of the California railroad industry.


The Silver Spike was driven here on March 8, 1881 to commemorate the meeting of the Southern Pacific with the Rio Grande, Mexico and Pacific (a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe) railroads. This was the second transcontinental railroad to be completed in North America.Deming became an important port of entry near the US-Mexican border.


A nickname was given to the city at the time of its founding, "New Chicago". It was expected that with the surge of railroad usage, that the city would grow drastically and resemble Chicago, Illinois. There are numerous ancient Native American sites around Deming. The Mimbres and Casas Grandes cultures made pottery of remarkable quality, and the Deming area is rich in native pottery artifacts, as well as beads, stone implements, stone carvings, graves, etc.


The artifacts are now on display at multiple museums.


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