Sunspot, New Mexico

Sunspot Visitor's Center and Museum

Sunspot is an unincorporated community in the Sacramento Mountains in Otero County, New Mexico, United States. It is located within the Lincoln National Forest, 18 miles south of Cloudcroft. Its elevation is 9200 feet.

It is named after the nearby National Solar Observatory on Sacramento Peak, in a vote that was allegedly rigged by the observatory's director John Evans.^[1] The sole road that drives into Sunspot is New Mexico State Road 6563, named for the brightest wavelength of hydrogen emission, H-alpha.

References

↑ Honan, William H. (November 6, 1999). "John Evans, 90, Ex-Director Of National Solar Observatory". The New York Times (New York: NYTC). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 18, 2013.

Municipalities and communities of Otero County, New Mexico, United States

County seat: Alamogordo

City	Alamogordo

Villages	Cloudcroft Tularosa

CDPs	Bent Boles Acres Chaparral‡ High Rolls Holloman AFB La Luz Mayhill Mescalero Orogrande Piñon Sacramento Timberon Twin Forks Weed

Other unincorporated communities	Hortonville Mountain Park Newman Sunspot Three Rivers

Indian reservation	Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 32°47′28″N 105°49′05″W / 32.791°N 105.818°W / 32.791; -105.818

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Sunspot, New Mexico

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