Alamogordo (disambiguation)
Alamogordo may refer to several locations in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico's Sonoran Desert:
- Alamogordo, New Mexico, the 1860s community established as a Southern Pacific Railroad station after nearby 1861 & 1863 Hispanic communities
- Alamogordo Daily News
- Alamogordo Museum of History
- Alamogordo Public Library
- Alamogordo–White Sands Regional Airport, 5 mi (8.0 km) SSW of the city
- Alamogordo/Alameda Narrow Gauge Railway, a visitor attraction with a working sixteen-inch-gauge track rail line
- New Mexico State University Alamogordo, a 2 year community college
- Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway, an 1800s branch railroad from the community
- Alamogordo Army Air Field, the November 1942 field (Alamogordo Field Training Station on 27 May, Alamogordo Army Air Base on 10 June)
- Alamogordo Air Force Base, the 1947 USAF name prior to becoming Holloman Air Force Base in 1948
- Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, an Air Force facility established by Executive Order No. 9029 on 14 May 1942
- Alamogordo Guided Missile Test Base, a portion of the Air Force range (1947 1st launch, now a NRHP site) and merged with the neighboring Army proving ground (1947 New Mexico Joint Guided Missile Test Range, 1958 White Sands Missile Range)
- Alamogordo Public Schools, the school system for an area of Otero County
See also: USS Alamogordo (ARDM-2)
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