Chaves County, New Mexico Land Market Insights and Pricing

Chaves County is set in a largely underpopulated, agricultural area of New Mexico. At 6,076 square miles, the county is the state's ninth-largest county and comprises some 5 percent of the Enchantment State's total land area. Chaves is centered around the county seat of Roswell, famously known for a 1947 UFO sighting and the reported military cover-up of the alien flying-saucer's crash landing during a storm. A combined 100,000 acres were listed for sale in New Mexico's Chaves County recently; the value of all Chaves County land and rural real estate for sale was nearly $48 million. Chaves County ranks 20th out of 33 counties in the Land of Enchantment for the total acreage of land currently advertised for sale. Of all land for sale in Chaves County, Roswell featured the most land for sale. Chaves County is one of the ten biggest counties in New Mexico (6,075 square miles). It's located in the Southeast New Mexico region of the state.