Conservation 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 farms, ranches, hunting land and other land for sale in New Mexico's Chaves County recently on Land.com was approximately $61 million. This represents around 100,000 acres of land for sale in Chaves County. Chaves County ranks 20th based on the total amount of acres of land for sale among the 33 counties in New Mexico. Among cities in Chaves County with land and rural real estate for sale, 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 the state.