Cooney, New Mexico
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Cooney, New Mexico | |
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  Cooney Location within the state of New Mexico  Cooney Cooney (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 33°25′22″N 108°48′28″W / 33.42278°N 108.80778°W[1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Mexico |
| County | Catron |
| Population (2000) | |
• Total | 0 |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Mountain (MST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | MDT |
| Area code | 575 |
Cooney is a ghost town in Catron County, New Mexico, United States, east of Alma. Cooney was once home to gold and silver prospectors in the nearby Mogollon Mountains.
In the 1870s Sergeant James C. Cooney of Fort Bayard found a rich strand of gold in the Gila Mountains near the future site of Mogollon, New Mexico.[2] His find led to the development of several different mines in the area, as well as the settlement of the towns of Mogollon, Alma, and Glenwood.
Several settlers from Cooney were killed, including James Cooney, during an event called the Alma Massacre.[3] The town was washed away in a flood in 1911.[4]
