Moriarty Eclipse Windmill

Moriarty is a town in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,946 at the 2020 Census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. Moriarty is about ten miles east of Edgewood, New Mexico, and shares a school district with the town, despite them being in separate counties (Edgewood is in Santa Fe County).

Indian Hills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 892 as of the 2010 census.

Lake Estancia was a lake formed in the Estancia Valley, central New Mexico, which left various coastal landforms in the valley. The lake was mostly fed by creek and groundwater from the Manzano Mountains, and fluctuated between freshwater stages and saltier stages. The lake had a diverse fauna, including cutthroat trout; they may have reached it during a possible past stage where it was overflowing. Lake Estancia appears to have formed between the Pliocene and Pleistocene, when a previous river system broke up. It reached a maximum water level ("highstand") presumably during the Illinoian glaciation and subsequently fluctuated between fuller stages and a desiccated basin. Around the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) time interval, several highstands and a low water level state occurred during the "Big Dry" climate interval. Between 16,100 and 14,500 years ago the lake reached its highest stand of the last 30,000 years before drying up again during the Bølling-Allerød climate interval. The lake briefly returned during the Younger Dryas climate interval and eventually desiccated after about 8,500 years ago during the Holocene. Wind-driven erosion has excavated depressions in the former lakebed that are in part filled with playas (dry lake beds). The lake was one of several pluvial lakes in southwestern North America that developed during the late Pleistocene. Their formation has been variously attributed to decreased temperatures during the ice age and increased precipitation; a shutdown of the thermohaline circulation and the Laurentide Ice Sheet altered atmospheric circulation patterns and increased precipitation in the region. The lake has yielded a good paleoclimatic record.

Sedillo is a census-designated place in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 802 as of the 2010 census. The community is located along Interstate 40.

Monte Largo is located in Bernalillo County, New Mexico and is 5 miles (8 km) north east of San Antonito. In New Mexico, Monte Largo is ranked the 1372nd highest peak, and 695th by prominence.

Sandia Knolls is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,208 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Paa-Ko is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, built around the Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.The CDP is in northeastern Bernalillo County on the northwest side of New Mexico State Road 14. It is bordered to the southeast, across NM 14, by Edgewood, and to the north it is bordered by La Madera in Sandoval County. Via NM 14, Paa-Ko is 3 miles (5 km) northeast of San Antonito, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Interstate 40 at Tijeras, and 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Golden. The community is on the west side of the valley of San Pedro Creek, a north-flowing tributary, via Arroyo Tonque, of the Rio Grande.