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. The combined value of land and rural real estate for sale in Chaves County, New Mexico, recently on Land.com was $43 million. This represents around 100,000 acres of farms, ranches, hunting land and other land for sale in Chaves County. Chaves County ranks 18th out of 33 counties in the state for the total number of acres of land currently advertised for sale. Of all locations in Chaves County with land and rural real estate for sale, 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 New Mexico.