View from Monument 165 looking southeast towards Organ Pipe National Monument. Two dirt roads run on each side of a fence, while a telephone pole is visible overhead.
Monument No. 210, looking southwest, near the Gray's Well area west of Yuma, Arizona. Although early monuments were equipped with flagpoles, this pole is used to mark the boundary under shifting sands. Even with the extension, the monument is often…
View of Monument 40, in corner of New Mexico border running east to west and north to south. A fence runs behind the monument while vegetation populates the space behind it.
Without water, the landscape cannot sustain the urban or agricultural development typical of the Rio Grande Valley. The topography is entirely arid desert. The border is marked by 276 permanent monuments covering 698 miles from Monument No. 1 to the…