Camping Properties for Sale in Chaves County, New Mexico

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 value of all farms, ranches, and rural real estate for sale in New Mexico's Chaves County recently was $29 million, representing a total of 60,164 acres of land for sale in Chaves County. Chaves County ranks 23rd based on the total acres of land for sale among all the counties in the Land of Enchantment. Among cities in Chaves County with ranches, farms, hunting land and other rural land and acreage for sale, Roswell had 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.