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    Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the southern part of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Truth or Consequences...
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    Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The dam impounds Elephant Butte Reservoir, which is used mainly for agriculture but also provides for recreation...
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    Elephant Butte is a city in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States, located near Elephant Butte Reservoir and Elephant Butte Lake State Park. The population...
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    Crested Butte, which is a 12,168 ft (3,709 m) mountain in Colorado, and Elephant Butte, which is now an island in Elephant Butte Reservoir in New Mexico...
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    shore of Elephant Butte Reservoir in Sierra County. The park is the largest state park in New Mexico and surrounds the state's largest reservoir. The 36...
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  • Whatcom County Elephant Butte Reservoir, a reservoir on the Rio Grande, in New Mexico. Elephant Butte, New Mexico, a city Elephant Butte, Sierra County...
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  • Elephant Butte is a summit that is now in the Elephant Butte Reservoir and within the Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Sierra County, New Mexico. It has...
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  • tortured an unknown number of women over many decades at his home in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, occasionally assisted by accomplices including his daughter...
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    projects downstream, stabilize outflows from Elephant Butte, and replace storage lost in Elephant Butte Reservoir due to sedimentation. With the benefit of...
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    River watershed via the San Juan–Chama Project. Elephant Butte Reservoir, the main storage reservoir on the Rio Grande, was reported at 13.1% of capacity...
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  • Elephant Butte is a populated place on the southeast end of the Elephant Butte Reservoir in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. It should not be...
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    Caballo serves as an afterbay for the Elephant Butte Reservoir, i.e. it stores water released from Elephant Butte for hydroelectricity generation purposes...
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    is in excess of 3,000 feet (910 m). The group is present around Elephant Butte Reservoir, in the Caballo Mountains, and under much of the Jornada del Muerto...
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    major settlement did not begin until the construction of Elephant Butte Dam and its reservoir in 1912; the dam was completed in 1916. It was a part of...
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    of water; there are several artificial lakes and reservoirs, the largest being Elephant Butte Reservoir, which was created by the damming of the Rio Grande...
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  • was flooded by the Elephant Butte Reservoir created by the Elephant Butte Dam. Its mouth is now on the western edge of that reservoir at the mouth of Monticello...
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  • extends into Socorro County. The range borders the eastern shore of Elephant Butte Reservoir on the Rio Grande, and the range lies towards the southwest of...
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    for "horse") and Elephant Butte Reservoir (named after a rock formation in the middle of the lake that looks similar to an elephant). Hatch is 40 mi (64 km)...
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    deepest point). The beaches of Caballo are rocky when compared to Elephant Butte Reservoir, but there are many sandy areas. Beware of the whirlpool at the...
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    Mexico in Texas. Now it can only be seen between Cochiti Dam and Elephant Butte Reservoir. It is a stout silvery minnow with moderately small eyes and a...
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    "Tyrannosaurus rex from the McRae Formation (Lancian, Upper Cretaceous), Elephant Butte reservoir, Sierra County, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society...
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  • Mexico) Caballo Dam and Caballo Lake (New Mexico) Elephant Butte Dam and Elephant Butte Reservoir (New Mexico) Rio Salado (New Mexico) Rio Puerco (New...
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    prompted the declaration of a water shortage at Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States. Climate change models project drier conditions in...
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  • Brantley Lake Caballo Lake Clayton Lake Conchas Lake El Vado Lake Elephant Butte Reservoir (largest lake in New Mexico) Fenton Lake Hackberry Lake Heron Lake...
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  • also permits water storage with the combined capacity of Elephant Butte and Caballo Reservoirs. The compact also sets a minimum quality standard, as in...
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  • 2010 census. The community is located on the western shore of Elephant Butte Reservoir. Hot Springs Landing is located at 33°12′17″N 107°12′36″W / 33...
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  • County, New Mexico, United States. Its site was submerged by the Elephant Butte Reservoir some years after it had been abandoned. Zapata, also named San...
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  • the Rio Grande, some ranches remained. Site was submerged by the Elephant Butte Reservoir. Aleman Aleman Ranch Sierra 1868 1875 Historic site Buildings on...
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  • Fort McRae is located on the east bank of the Elephant Butte Reservoir in the general area of Elephant Butte, New Mexico within McRae Canyon. A 21.6 acres...
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    (121 km/h). Before I-25 reaches Truth or Consequences and just south of Elephant Butte Reservoir State Park, it crosses over to the west side of the Rio Grande...
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