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Texico Municipal Schools

k-12 school district in Texico, New Mexico, U.S

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ113317932 ↗
Source-derived summary

Texico Municipal Schools is a K-12 school district headquartered in Texico, New Mexico.

Most of the district is located in Curry County, with a section in Roosevelt County.

History

Circa 1953 the district bought, from the federal government, a 728-square-foot (67.6 m2), three bedroom cottage for home economics classes. The district had it transported for 800 miles (1,300 km).

In 1974 the district's proposed $150,000 bond to construct a new middle school was approved by the voting public.

Editorial summary

“Texico Municipal Schools” enters the record as k-12 school district in Texico, New Mexico, U.S. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Texico, Municipal and Schools can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Texico, Municipal and Schools.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Texico Municipal Schools” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Texico, Municipal and Schools provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113317932. Authority coordinates are 34.393, -103.050. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1953 and 1974.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Texico Municipal Schools”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Texico Municipal Schools primary sources, Texico Municipal Schools archive and Texico research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Texico Municipal Schools”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Texico Municipal Schools” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.