BOGLE - COYOTE

NAME: BOGLE - COYOTE COUNTY: LINCOLN ROADS: 2WD GRID: 5 CLIMATE: No problem. Just watch the snow clouds. BEST TIME TO VISIT: any time

COMMENTS: BOGLE. Post office 1920 / 1925. First named Hurlbert for the first agent of EP&NE RR who had his office in a box car. Name changed to Bogle, for Roy Bogle, a pumper here. REMAINS: Inquire locally

BOGLE/COYOTE. At a later time the name was changed to Coyote becvause it was at the mouth of Coyote Canyon.At least four settlements, thre creeks, two canyons, an arroyo, a draw, and a valley are called Coyote, the Spanish-Nahuatl term for an animal part fox, part wolf, inhabiting the desert wastes from central Mexico to Canada. The place which the coyote holds in American experience, among three peoples-indian, spanish, anglo-is emphasised by the frequency of the place name. Coyote.COYOTE. SEE RAINSVILLE. Rio Arriba County. 25 mi W of Abiquiu, named for Coyote Valley and settled in 1862. The settlers had to dispossess the coyotes before they took possession themselves. Post office 1885, intermittently , to present.COYOTE. Sandoval county.COYOTE ARROYO. Santa Fe County.COYOTE CANYON. Lincoln county.COYOTE CREEK. Mora County. Flows SW into Mora County.COYOTE CREEK. Rio Arriba County. Rises near Sandoval county line; flows to the Rio Puerco.COYOTE DRAW. Torrance county.COYOTE LAKE. Chavez County. In E part of county, 18 mi W of Caprock.COYOTE SPRINGS. Bernalillo county. Spring produces carbonated water; now in limits of Sandia Base.COYOTE SPRINGS. Valencia County. 25 mi W of Belen.COYOTE VALLEY. Rio Arriba county. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

BACK