San Juan County, New Mexico Real Estate Agent - Gibby Wood
Gibby Wood and Charlie Todd have been residents of the Four Corners area since the 1970's and opened RE/MAX of Farmington in May of 1996. Gibby, Charlie, the staff, and fellow REALTORS® at RE/MAX of Farmington have built their office into the real estate market leader in San Juan County. We take pride in our office and strive to meet your needs. Nobody Sells More Real Estate in San Juan County than RE/MAX of Farmington.
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Four Corners Quick Facts
The Four Corners region is a unique feature of this portion of the United States of America. It is one tiny spot where four different states come together, and the state lines form a perfect double cross. The Four Corners is where the northwest corner of New Mexico, meets four other states. The others corners include the southwest corner of Colorado, the southeast corner of Utah, and the northeast corner of Arizona.
This quadric-point, where the four boundaries meet, is marked by the Four Corners Monument, a concrete slab which was put here in 1912. Tourist brochures like to emphasize the fact that this is the only spot in the entire country where you can be in four separate states, while standing in one spot. The Four Corners monument is one of the most photographed places in America, and on any given day, hundreds or thousands of tourists pour onto the site, sprawl on the geographic marker, with a limb in each state, and have their picture taken.
Most of this region forms a part of four semi-autonomous American Indian nations. The Four Corners Monument stands in the largest, the Navajo Nation. The others are the Ute, the Hopi and the Zuni nations. The region remains largely rural, as well as dry and rugged. The largest city, by population, is Farmington, New Mexico. Commonly visited sites and areas in the Four Corners region include the Mesa Verde National Park, the Chaco National Historical Park, and so on.
The area now known as Four Corners was first acquired from Mexico, by the US, at the end of the 1848 Mexican American War. In 1863, Congress carved Arizona Territory out of the western portion of existing New Mexico Territory, defining the border as a geometrically straight line running due south. This unusual line originated in the southwest corner of the newly created Colorado Territory, formed in 1861. Before this unusual demarcation, state lines had been drawn, most commonly, along latitudes or longitudes, or along rivers. This geometrical demarcation of borders ensured that there would eventually be more states meeting at that point, where one boundary grew from the corner of another state. In 1868, the area was surveyed as a part of the process of creating a state out of the Colorado Territory, which created the first state in the Four Corners. Although the region remains mostly rural today, there are economic hubs, the largest of which, is Farmington, New Mexico, which is also the sole Metropolitan Area in the region. Other New Mexico cities within the Four Corners region include Aztec, Shiprock, and Bloomfield.
Aztec Ruins National Monument
One of the most popular tourist destinations in the Four Corners Region of New Mexico, the site was mistakenly attributed to the Aztecs of Mexico because of their sheer size and magnificence. The construction technology too, seemed very advanced. Later however, Archeologists have confirmed the fact that they were the homes of prehistoric ancestors of the Southwest American Pueblo people.
Chaco National Historical Park
The Chaco National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico is closest to Farmington. The Highway 550, County Road 7900, and County Road 7950 provide easy access to the park. The area was a major residential center of the Pueblo People, between the years 850 AD and 1250 AD. The remains of the huge scale of the architecture, evidence of the complex ceremonial lives of the people, and the illustrations of the social organization of the community make this site unique in its historical interest.
Mesa Verde National Park
The Mesa Verde National Park is about 9 miles to the east of Cortez, on US-160. Cliff dwellings, hiking trails and archeological sites are the main attractions. The ruins here are some of the best preserved in the country, remains of the Pueblo homes dated 600 to 1300 AD. 4,000 archaeological sites are dotted around the National park, as well as 600 cliff dwellings.
Navajo Lake
Navajo Lake, straddles the Four Corners Area of two states, Northern New Mexico as well as southern Colorado. The second largest lake within the state of New Mexico, Navajo Lake is 35 miles in length and has more than 250 miles of shores.
