That the county of Los Alamos is hereby created out of those portions of Sandoval and Santa Fe counties lying and situate within the following boundaries, to wit:

beginning at NE corner of the SE 1/4 of section 13, township 20 north, range 6 east of the New Mexico principal meridian, which point is on the county line between Sandoval county and Santa Fe county, state of New Mexico; thence in a westerly direction along the northern boundary of the S 1/2 of said section 13 to the northwest corner of the SW 1/4 of said section 13; thence in a northerly direction along the eastern boundary of section 14 to the northeast corner thereof; thence in a westerly direction along the northern boundaries of sections 14 and 15 to the northeast corner of section 16; thence in a southerly direction along the eastern boundary of said section 16 to the southeast corner thereof; thence in a westerly direction along the southern boundary of said section 16 to the southwest corner thereof; thence in a southerly direction along the eastern boundary line of section 20 to the NE corner of the SE 1/4 of said section 20; thence in a westerly direction along the north boundary of the S 1/2 of said section 20 to the northwest corner of the SW 1/4 of said section 20; thence in a westerly direction along the north boundary of the S 1/2 of section 19 to the northwest corner of the SW 1/4 of said section 19, all in township 20 north, range 6 east; thence in a westerly direction along the north boundary of the S 1/2 of section 24, to the northwest corner of the SW 1/4 of said section; thence in a westerly direction along the north boundary of the S 1/2 of section 23 to the northwest corner of the SW 1/4 of said section 23; thence in a northerly direction along the eastern boundary of section 22 to the northeast corner thereof; thence in a westerly direction along the northern boundary of said section 22 to a point on the eastern boundary of the Baca location numbered 1, which point is the southwest corner of the Santa Clara Indian reservation; all in township 20 north, range 5 east; thence in a southerly direction along the eastern boundary of the Baca location numbered 1, a distance of approximately 9.1 miles, to the southeast corner of the Baca location numbered 1; thence in a westerly direction approximately 1.3 miles along the southern boundary of the Baca location numbered 1, to the intersection of said boundary with the initial station of the Sawyer Mesa special survey, a survey of a portion of unsubdivided township 18 north, range 5 east, which point is the northwest corner of the Sawyer Mesa tract; thence in a southeasterly direction, along the southwest boundary of the Sawyer Mesa tract, a distance of 5.34 miles, to the intersection of the south boundary of the Sawyer Mesa tract with the west boundary of the Bandelier national monument, which point is the southeast corner of the Sawyer Mesa tract; thence in a general northerly direction approximately 0.8 miles along this boundary to the south boundary of the Ramon Vigil grant, which point is the northwest corner of the Bandelier national monument; thence in a general southeasterly direction for approximately 8.0 miles, along the boundary between the Ramon Vigil grant and the Bandelier national monument, to the intersection of said south boundary of the Ramon Vigil grant with the south end of the east boundary of said grant, which point is the southeast corner of the Ramon Vigil grant and is on the west bank of the Rio Grande river; thence in a general northeasterly direction approximately 7.8 miles along the east boundary of the Ramon Vigil grant, which boundary is parallel to the west bank of the Rio Grande river, to the southeast corner of the tract within the Ramon Vigil grant identified as Tract A in the general land office survey for group no. 406, dated August 15, 1938, and titled plat Ramon Vigil grant, New Mexico, said tract commonly being known as "Sacred Area" or "Indian Sacred Grounds"; thence in a general northwesterly direction approximately 7.7 miles along the southern boundary of said Tract A, to a point on the northern boundary of the Ramon Vigil grant, which point is at the northwest corner of the so-called "Sacred Area"; thence in an easterly direction approximately 1.9 miles along the northern boundary of the Ramon Vigil grant to a point on the Sandoval and Santa Fe county line, which point is the southeast corner of fractional section 25, township 19 north, range 6 east, and the southwest corner of a detached portion of the Bandelier national monument; thence northerly along the east side of said township to the northeast corner of section 1 of said township; thence northerly along the east side of township 20 north, range 6 east to the northeast corner of the SE 1/4 of section 13 of said township, the point of beginning.

History: 1941 Comp., § 15-1351, enacted by Laws 1949, ch. 134, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 15-15-1.

Cross references. — For boundaries of Sandoval county, see 4-23-1 NMSA 1978.

For boundaries of Santa Fe county, see 4-26-1 and 4-26-2 NMSA 1978.