Nutt is an unincorporated community in Luna County, southern New Mexico, in the American Southwest.

[3] The town of Nutt was founded in 1881 as a depot and water station on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and was named after Colonel Henry Clay Nutt who served on their board of directors, and was instrumental in getting enabling legislation through the New Mexico Territorial Legislature for the southern spur of the railway.

[4][5] Wagon trains left Nutt for the mining communities in the Black Range until the Santa Fe ran a spur line up to Lake Valley in 1884.

[7][8] Its only claim to fame came in 1892 when Tom Ketchum aka "Black Jack" and his brother Sam learned that an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train was en route to Deming with a large payroll.

[5] Nutt Mountain is a volcanic plug composed of layered rhyolites, and has also been called Sunday Cone.