Harding County

Harding County

Harding County sits in northeastern New Mexico with its county seat in Mosquero. Harding is named after the 29th President, Warren G. Harding. The county has the smallest population in the state with its 2,138 square miles and 1.3 million acres. Harding’s scenic beauty includes the spectacular Canadian River Canyon and vast ranch and farm lands. Carbon dioxide, used in dry ice and increasingly in tertiary recovery of petroleum, is an important product and growing industry in the county.

Harding County was created in 1921 out of parts of Mora and Union Counties. Mosquero is the county seat.

The Place Names of New Mexico, revised Edition by Robert Julyan, University of New Mexico Press, 1998.