Cookes Range

Coordinates: 32°32′10″N 107°43′54″W / 32.5360°N 107.7316°W / 32.5360; -107.7316

Cookes Range
Mountain Range
Country	United States
State	New Mexico
Region	((northwest)-Chihuahuan Desert)
County	Luna
Borders on	Whitehorse Mountain-NW Mimbres Mountains-N Good Sight Mountains-ESE Deming, NM & Florida Mtns-S
City	Deming Nutt, Lake Valley
Coordinates	32°32′10″N 107°43′54″W / 32.5360°N 107.7316°W / 32.5360; -107.7316
Highest point	Cookes Peak
- location	Cookes Range
- elevation	8,408 ft (2,563 m)
- coordinates	32°32′10″N 107°43′54″W / 32.5360°N 107.7316°W / 32.5360; -107.7316
Length	17 mi (27 km), N-S
Width	8 mi (13 km)
Topo map	USGS Massacre Peak
Cookes Range in New Mexico

The Cookes Range is a small 17-mi (27 km) long,^[1] mountain range in the north of Luna County, New Mexico. The north of the range extends slightly north into southeast Grant County. The range is a continuation of a south extension of the Mimbres Mountains, a southeast portion of the extensive north south Black Range.

The range and the region is surrounded by lower elevation areas of the northwest Chihuahuan Desert, the large desert at the north of the Mexican Plateau and encompassing much of Chihuahua state, Mexico.

Description

Cookes Range is about 17 mi long, and about 8 mi at its widest. It is discontinuous, with a center-north section where Cookes Peak, 8,408 feet (2,563 m)^[2] is located, at the origin of OK Canyon, which exits the range eastwards. Adjacent the ridges south of OK Canyon is a transverse ridgeline, across the range, west to east, named Rattlesnake Ridge. One other larger peak occurs in the discontinuous mountains and hills in the south region, Massacre Peak, at 5,667 feet (1,727 m). Other outlying lower elevation hills occur, east and west, in the north section, as the Cookes Range merges into the lower elevations of the Mimbres Mountains section of the Black Range.

Environment and ecology

The Cookes Range Wilderness Study Area is located in the range.

See also

• Battle of Cooke's Canyon

References

1. ^ New Mexico Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c. 2009, p. 44-45.
2. ^ New Mexico Atlas & Gazetteer, p. 45.

External links

Peaks

• Cookes Peak, Contiguous States US 2,000 ft Prominence List

Cookes Range

• Cookes Range Wilderness Study Area, at myfishmaps.com
• NMBGMR, Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Cookes Peak, Cookes Range, maps & photo galley