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. Land for sale in Chaves County recently totaled $58 million and almost 100,000 acres. Chaves County ranks 20th based on the combined acreage of land for sale among all the counties in the Land of Enchantment. Of all farms and ranches for sale in Chaves County, Roswell had the most land for sale. Chaves County is one of the ten largest counties in New Mexico (6,075 square miles). It's located in the Southeast New Mexico region of New Mexico.