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Name: Clayton
County: Union
Population: 2524
Region: NE
Profile:

Known for its wide, tree-lined streets, Clayton is located nine miles from the Texas-Oklahoma panhandle border. Clayton sits in the heart of cowboy country, where more than 100,000 heads of livestock thrive on the high, rolling grasslands of El Llano Estacado (Staked Plains). More than 500 dinosaur tracks/traces were discovered at Clayton Lake in 1982.

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Attractions:

Clayton Municipal Airpark & Convention Center, Eklund Hotel (pictured), Herzstein Memorial Museum, Luna Theater, South First Street (commercial district), Union County Courthouse (1909), Union County Historical Park, Mandala Center

Nearby Locations:

Bravo Dome/Industrial site (world's largest and purest concentration of natural carbon dioxide), Capulin Volcano National Monument, Clayton Lake State Park (Dinosaur Tracks, discovered 1982), Folsom Falls (Natural spring-fed waterfall.), Folsom Museum, Kiowa National Grasslands, Wedding Cake Mountain

Accomodations:

Hotels and Motels: 8; Bed and Breakfast: 0; Total Rooms: 230

Airport: Clayton Municipal
Airport Services: private
Other Information:

Rose Ramirez

575-374-9253; cuchamber@plateautel.net

Clayton/Union County Chamber of Commerce

800-390-7858

575-374-9253 Telephone/Fax

Web: www.claytonnewmexico.org

www.claytonnewmexico.net

E-mail: info@claytonnewmexico.net

 
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