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 value of all land and rural real estate for sale in Chaves County recently was approximately $47 million, representing a combined 39,046 acres of land for sale in Chaves County. Chaves County ranks 20th in the state for the combined amount of land currently advertised for sale. Of all locations in Chaves County with ranches, farms, hunting land and other rural land and acreage for sale, Roswell featured 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.