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Portales
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city in and the county seat of Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Roosevelt
- Total
- 8.01 sq mi (20.74 km )
- Land
- 8.01 sq mi (20.74 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 4,013 ft (1,223 m)
- Density
- 1,516/sq mi (585.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−06:00 (MDT)
- Zip codes
- 88123, 88130
- Fips code
- 35-59260
- Website
- portalesnm.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Portales
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Roosevelt County
- Population
- 12137
- Area
- 18.296696
- Elevation
- 1221
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Capital of
- Roosevelt County
- Official website
- www.portalesnm.org
- Image
- Roosevelt County Court House.jpg
- Households
- 4194
- Dialing code
- 575
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- Commons category
- Portales, New Mexico
- topic's main category
- Category:Portales, New Mexico
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Portales, New Mexico
- P8168
- Béla Abody
- water as percent of area
- 0.0134
- per capita income
- 18956
- P12749
- Recife
- postal code
- 88130
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Encyclopedic overview
Portales (/pɔːrˈtælɪs/) is a city in and the county seat of Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Portales had a population of 12,137. Portales is located near the larger city of Clovis, and Cannon Air Force Base, a major contributor to the economy of the region.
Eastern New Mexico University opened in Portales in 1934 as Eastern New Mexico Junior College, and has since grown to become the third-largest university in the state. The area is one of the largest producers of Valencia peanuts in the United States and is the nation's top producer of certified organic peanut butter. Portales is home to about 40 dairies and a major US dairy solids plant, together producing and exporting hundreds of millions of dollars of local milk products each year. It is the principal city of the Portales micropolitan statistical area, which is part of the larger Clovis-Portales combined statistical area, including Clovis, 19 miles (31 km) away and Cannon Air Force Base, 13 miles (21 km) away.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portales” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.