2 Adjoining Parcels * Mobiles Modulars Allowed. Animals Ok. * RV

RIO GRANDE ESTATES Rio Grande Estates is a master-planned subdivision, platted out and pinned back in the 1960's. From this subdivision, Belen is only ten miles north and Albuquerque only forty miles.Rio Grande Estates is perfect for anyone looking to live an off the grid lifestyle, as does not restrict the use of the real property within its county.NO PICTURES AT THIS TIME SIZE: 2.28 acres APN#: R033387, R033388 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Rio Grande Estates Unit 9, Block 350, Lots- 9, 10 STATE: New MexicoCOUNTY: Socorro GENERAL LOCATION: Rio Grande Estates sits just East of the I-25 corridor on both sides of Highway 60. The Manzano Mountains are to the East.  GPS (approx.): Lot 9 - SE: 34.490419, -106.739949; SW: 34.490415, -106.740539;Lot 10- NE corner lot Paseo del Escardado * Gaspar. NW: 34.490848, -106.741693; SW: 34.490415, -106.741687; SE: 34.490415, -106.740539 GENERAL INFORMATION: Camp, RV, Build. Mobiles and modulars allowed. Animals allowed. Views of Manzano Mountains to the East. GENERAL ELEVATION: 5000’ TYPE OF TERRAIN:  mostly level ZONING: Socorro County has no formal zoning ordinance and Valencia County has minimal. POWER: NoPHONE: No. most cell services workWATER: No. must install well or holding tank.SEWER: No.ROADS: All parcels have platted roads and road easements. Roads in Valencia County are somewhat better than in Socorro County. The roads within the Subdivision are dirt and unimproved dirt. PROPERTY TAX: $8-$22 CLOSING/DOC. FEES: $115TIME LIMIT TO BUILD: none.ASSOCIATION DUES: none Owner financing available  Go to 1881.com Area land page Socorro County The county seat is Socorro.  The county was formed in 1852 as one of the original nine counties of New Mexico Territory.   With multiple mountain ranges, extents of grasslands and marshes providing a wide array of available habitats, Socorro County is home to an extensive variety of ecosystems and wildlife. Socorro County contains 826 species of wildlife, including 14 amphibians, 60 reptiles, 336 birds, and 96 mammals.  Wildlife in the County includes coyote, deer, elk, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, Barbary sheep, black bear, mountain lion, wild turkey, various furbearers, Mexican spotted owl, and quail.The high mountains, remote canyons, pristine forests and diverse wildlife found on the area's national forests, national wildlife refuges, national monuments, and BLM's national system of public lands provide for phenomenal recreation opportunities, including picnicking, hiking, backpacking, wildlife viewing, horseback-riding, and hunting. In fact, the four biggest elk in New Mexico were bagged in Socorro county and the Datil Mountains. The two most popular recreational activities on the Cibola National Forest are hiking/walking and viewing natural features with 35% and 15% of visitors citing these as their main activities, respectively. The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge hosts the Festival of the Cranes every November, celebrating the arrival of sandhill cranes and other migratory birds. Rare whooping cranes are also found occasionally on the Bosque del Apache.Outlaw renegades Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch and notorious Apaches like Cochise and Geronimo have ties to Socorro County's San Mateo Mountains. Vicks Peak was named after Victorio, “a Mimbreño Apache leader whose territory included much of the south and southwest New Mexico.”[6] Famous for defying relocation orders in 1879 and leading his warriors “on a two-year reign of terror before he was killed,” Victorio is at least as highly regarded as Geronimo or Cochise among Apaches. Perhaps most famous outlaw was the Apache Kid whose supposed grave lies within the Apache Kid Wilderness. Stories of depredations by the Apache Kid, and of his demise, became so common and dramatic that in southwestern folklore they may be exceeded only by tales of lost Spanish gold. Native Americans lingered in the San Mateos well into the 1900s. A mining rush followed the Apache wars – gold, silver, and copper were found in the mountains. It wasn't until this time that extensive use of the area by non-Native Americans occurred. While some mining activity, involving gold, silver, and copper, occurred in the southern part of the range near the end of the nineteenth century, the prospecting/mining remnants are barely visible today due to collapse, topographic screening, and vegetation regrowth. While miners combed the mountains for mineral riches during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, stockmen drove tens of thousands of sheep and cattle to stockyards at the village of Magdalena, then linked by rail with Socorro. In fact, the last regularly used cattle trail in the United States stretched 125 miles westward from Magdalena. The route was formally known as the Magdalena Livestock Driveway, but more popularly known to cowboys and cattlemen as the Beefsteak Trail. The trail began use in 1865 and its peak was in 1919. The trail was used continually until trailing gave way to trucking and the trail officially closed in 1971.[ COURTESY of WIKIPEDIA ]>