Organ, New Mexico

Organ is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.

[7] Mining operations near Organ produced gold, lead, iron, silver and other minerals.

However, with the opening of White Sands Missile Range and the testing of the nuclear weapons in 1945, Organ began to thrive again as a community providing homes and leisure services to military personnel and government contractors only a short distance from the main military post.

The Organ Community Center was improved in 2008 and is still located on land of the original town square.

The roads are paved and improvements are still ongoing through the supervision of Dona Ana County.

Organ's old schoolhouse, May 2010
Map of New Mexico highlighting Doña Ana County