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Taos, NM - History


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


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

Taos has a population of 5950. 47% of Taos’s inhabitants are Male, and 53 are female. 28.3% of Taos is married and 62% own their own home. The Average Home price is $273,960, and the average rent is $775. Household median income in Taos is $30,709, and the individual median income is $18,034. Taos’s Ethnic is the following: White(77.7%), Hispanic(45.4%), Multiple(9.8%), Other(7.9%), Native(3.9%), Asian(0.4%), Black(0.2%).


Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo (the town's namesake) and Hispano communities, including Ranchos de Taos, Cañon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, El Prado, and Arroyo Seco.


The town was incorporated in 1934. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,716. Taos is the county seat of Taos County. The English name Taos derives from the native Taos language meaning "(place of) red willows". Taos is the principal town of the Taos, NM, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Taos County.


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