About Mogollon, New Mexico

Mogollon is a former mining town high in the Mogollon Mountains of Catron County, where the Census Bureau counted 11 people in 2020. During the 1870s a Fort Bayard soldier, Sergeant James C. Cooney, found rich gold in the Gila Mountains close by, and in 1889 a miner named John Eberle put up the first cabin beside Silver Creek. A jail and a post office followed in 1890, and a school opened in 1892.

Through the 1890s somewhere between 3,000 and 6,000 miners came and went, and the town's remote setting gave it a name as one of the wildest camps in the West. The Little Fannie mine grew into its biggest employer. When the ore grew poorer, profits fell with it, and by 1930 only about 200 people were left. The Fanny mines closed in 1942, and because the Fanny Mill was the only mill in town, the other mines shut down too.

“The Mogollon/Cooney mining region, of which Mogollon was the center, was the largest producer of gold and silver in the state from 1887 to 1925 and probably also from 1934 to 1942.”
Mogollon Historic District nomination, 1987
  • Burned and flooded, then rebuiltFire destroyed most of Mogollon's wooden buildings in 1894, and more fires came in 1904, 1910, 1915 and 1942. Each time the townspeople rebuilt right away, using more stone and adobe. Silver Creek flooded as well, in 1894, 1896, 1899 and 1914, carrying off mine tailings, bridges, houses and people.
  • A busy camp in 1909About 2,000 people lived in Mogollon in 1909. The town had five saloons, two restaurants, four stores, two hotels, a bakery, an ice maker, a photographer and the Midway Theatre. A daily stage line carried passengers, freight and bullion the 80 miles to Silver City in almost 15 hours.
  • 40% of the state's precious metalsMore than 20 mines worked the district. In 1914 they turned out about $1.5 million in gold and silver, roughly 40% of New Mexico's precious metals that year, and by 1915 the town's monthly payroll reached $75,000. Over their lifetime the mines of the Mogollon Mountains gave up more than 18 million ounces of silver, a quarter of all the silver New Mexico produced.
  • A movie set in 1973Henry Fonda and Terence Hill starred in the Spaghetti Western My Name is Nobody, which was shot in Mogollon in 1973. The saloon and general store in town were built for the movie's set.

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