Facts About Roswell
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Roswell is a city in, and the seat of, Chaves County in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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The Roswell UFO incident was named after the town, though the crash site of the alleged UFO was some 75 miles from Roswell and closer to Corona.
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Roswell’s tourism industry is based on aerospace engineering and ufology museums and businesses, as well as alien-themed and spacecraft-themed iconography.
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Roswell is located in the High Great Plains of southeastern New Mexico, west of the Pecos River and east of highlands that rise to the Sierra Blanca range.
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The estimated population of Roswell is 47,941, as of 2019.
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Roswell has a total area of 29.9 square miles, of which 29.8 square miles is land and 0.04 square miles, or 0.19%, is covered by water.
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The record low in Roswell is −24 °F on January 11, 1962, and February 8, 1933. The record high is 114 °F on June 27, 1994.
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The median income for a household in the city was $43,372, and per capita income was $22,119.
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Roswell hosted the record-breaking skydive by Felix Baumgartner on October 14, 2012.
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In the 1930s, Roswell was a site for much of Robert H. Goddard’s early rocketry work.
