Hatch, New Mexico

Everything Hatch is known for

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Music in Hatch

Songs About Hatch

New Mexico

Wake Self

"Hatch, Clovis, Tucumcari, Zuni this is strictly"

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Hatch

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Hatch.

Rio Grande / Río Bravo 162 songs Rio Grande / Río Bravo 249 songs Interstate 10 36 songs

History of Hatch

Radium Springs: A Glowing Sales Pitch RoadyGoat

1926

Radium Springs, New Mexico, north of Las Cruces, sounds like a place you'd need a hazmat suit to visit. The truth is part chemistry, part marketing. The spot was originally called Fort Selden Springs, after the old frontier fort nearby. When a post office opened in 1926, someone ran a mineral analysis on the hot spring water and it showed just enough radium, measured in tiny microcuries, for the town to claim the name. This was the height of the radium health craze, when people genuinely believed a faintly radioactive soak cured arthritis and frayed nerves. A resort hotel went up around the wells and drew crowds chasing that glow. The radium was real but trace, and the name was pure spa salesmanship dressed up in the science of its day.

18.0 mi away

Things to Do in Hatch

quirky 24.5 mi away

Spaceport America

The world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport sits 30 miles away in empty desert.

food 0.9 mi away

Hatch Chile Capital

The chile capital of the world. Roadside roasters every fall in tiny Hatch NM.

Everything Near Hatch

4 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

Hatch Chile and the Lytle Family · 0.9 mi · Web
You are in the chile capital of the world, and that is not a marketing line. The Hatch Valley grows the New Mexican green chile most Americans have ever tasted. The most famous variety, the NuMex Big Jim, was released…
Hatch Chile Capital · 0.9 mi · Things to Do
The chile capital of the world. Roadside roasters every fall in tiny Hatch NM.
Radium Springs: A Glowing Sales Pitch · 18.0 mi
Radium Springs, New Mexico, north of Las Cruces, sounds like a place you'd need a hazmat suit to visit. The truth is part chemistry, part marketing. The spot was originally called Fort Selden Springs, after the old…
Fort Selden · 18.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine Geronimo, the legendary Apache leader, once held prisoner right here. Fort Selden, established in 1865, was a crucial U.S. Army outpost along the historic El Camino Real, protecting settlers from Native American…

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