Fort Sumner New Mexico Map

About Fort Sumner, New Mexico

Fort Sumner is a locality in De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. It is a small community with a population of 889. The population density is 103.5 people per km². Fort Sumner is located at 34.4869°N, 104.2177°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Fort Sumner is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 88119.

Fort Sumner occupies a sun-bleached expanse where the Pecos River cuts a persistent, winding path through the high plains. It lies 55.6 miles west-northwest of Portales, NM (from Portales, NM: bearing 291°T), and is situated 59.5 miles west of Clovis. The horizon here is vast and stripped of pretense, defined by the low, arid reach of the landscape that stretches toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Candy Mesa. Near the water, the earth softens into the quiet, brush-thickened terrain of Bosque Redondo Lake, where the air holds the scent of dry grass and the lingering heat of a relentless sun. At dusk, the light turns a bruised gold, settling over the flats with a gravity that makes the silence feel heavy and deliberate, as if the land itself is exhaling after the long climb of the afternoon.

History at Fort Sumner is written in the stubborn endurance of those who shaped this soil, from the layers of nomadic passage to the somber echoes of the mid-nineteenth century. The local economy remains anchored to the rhythms of the earth, where agriculture and the steady labor of the ranching life dictate the pace of the day. Beyond the reach of the Pecos River, the land opens into the expansive solitude of Gerhardt Valley, while further out, the waters of Red Lake mirror the wide, cloudless sky. Life here moves with a measured, unadorned focus, reflecting a culture forged in the crucible of a demanding climate and the quiet persistence of those who call this geography their own.

About This Fort Sumner Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Coordinates: 34.486944, -104.217668. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Fort Sumner includes the ZIP code (88119), telephone area code (575), county seat of De Baca County (Fort Sumner), and school district assignment (Fort Sumner Municipal Schools).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.