Orogrande is an unincorporated community in Otero County, New Mexico, United States, located in the Jarilla Mountains of the Tularosa Basin on U.S. 54 between El Paso, Texas and Alamogordo.

[5] The population soared to approximately 2000 as the result of a gold rush that occurred in 1905, but quickly collapsed almost to the point of depopulation when the gold deposits proved much less abundant than expected.

[6] There are still numerous abandoned mines in the area which fall under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management.

[7] Other land around Orogrande is part of a military reservation under the control of Fort Bliss.

The town holds the record temperature in New Mexico, at 116 degrees Fahrenheit.