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Anthony Public Library, July 1 2010 incorporation as a NM city, twin-city relationship with Anthony Texas, Leap Year Capital of the World designation, and NMLP volume-justified pickup from 245 miles north.

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Why the Anthony donation map is shaped by a 2010 incorporation, a state-line twin city, and a self-declared Leap Year Capital

Anthony is one of the most demographically distinctive small communities in southern New Mexico — a city legally incorporated only in 2010, but one whose neighborhood-and-family-and-business pattern stretches back generations through the Upper Mesilla Valley and across the New Mexico-Texas state line into Anthony, Texas. The City sits on I-10 in southern Doña Ana County, 24 miles south of Las Cruces and 18 miles north of El Paso. Three intertwined modern features shape what shows up in local estate libraries.

July 1, 2010 — formal incorporation. In an election held on January 5, 2010, Anthony residents voted in favor of incorporation. 410 of 561 votes (73.1%) supported the measure. The new municipality officially came into existence on July 1, 2010, making Anthony NM one of the most recently incorporated cities in the state. The 2009-2010 incorporation paper trail (organizing-committee correspondence, ballot records, City-formation documents) is itself a meaningful late-2000s NM municipal-history archive — and a number of multi-generation Anthony residents personally participated in the incorporation campaign.

Twin-city / cross-border with Anthony Texas. Anthony NM and Anthony Texas are geographically continuous communities split only by the New Mexico-Texas state line. The two municipalities are often referred to as "twin cities," and the everyday rhythms of life — schools, work commutes, church congregations, family ties — span both jurisdictions. Multi-generation Anthony-area Hispano family lines frequently span the state line, with property records, marriage records, parish records, business correspondence, and family papers in both Doña Ana County (NM) and El Paso County (TX). For estate clearances, this cross-border reality means documented records may have archival relevance on both sides — the El Paso Public Library and UTEP's C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department are both legitimate routing destinations for documented Texas-side material.

"Leap Year Capital of the World." In February 1988, the Anthony, Texas Chamber of Commerce voted to sponsor a leap year festival and declared Anthony Texas and Anthony NM to be the joint Leap Year Capitals of the World. Every leap year, the twin cities celebrate with an officially sponsored leap year birthday parade and festival. The Leap Year designation has become part of both cities' civic identity, and 1988-onward Leap-Year-Capital festival memorabilia, ephemera, and contemporaneous press appear in some Anthony estate libraries.

Mesilla Valley agricultural heritage. The Upper Mesilla Valley has been one of the most productive agricultural regions in southern New Mexico for over a century. Anthony-area estates can include 20th-century pecan-orchard records (Stahmann Pecans is a major regional industry headquartered just north), cotton-growing family papers, dairy-farm records, irrigation-and-Elephant-Butte-Irrigation-District documentation, and contemporaneous regional press.

The donation map reflects the City's young legal status, the cross-border reality, and the agricultural-heritage layers. The principal public library is the Anthony Public Library at 750 Landers Avenue. The 245-mile drive each way puts Anthony in deep volume-justified territory for NMLP. Routes always pair with Las Cruces (24 miles north on I-10), Mesilla, and the broader Mesilla Valley.

Anthony Public Library

Address: 750 Landers, Anthony, NM 88021 (mailing: P.O. Box 1476)

Phone: (575) 882-3059

Ownership: City of Anthony took ownership of the library on July 1, 2013 (formerly Doña Ana County / Anthony Water and Sanitation cooperative)

System: City of Anthony Public Library serving Anthony and the surrounding southern Doña Ana County / Upper Mesilla Valley

Source: Anthony Public Library — Official SiteLibrary Technology Guides

Standard library donation rules apply: clean condition, books in sellable shape, no water damage, no mold, no significant marginalia or highlighting, no ex-library copies. The library accepts books and standard media at the front desk during open hours. Bilingual (Spanish-English) collection is meaningful given the community's Hispano-majority demographic.

For donors with mixed-condition material, large estate libraries, or volumes that exceed what the library can absorb, NMLP free pickup is the answer.

When NMLP free pickup makes sense in Anthony NM

Logistics: Call or text 702-496-4214. Routes always pair with Las Cruces (24 mi north on I-10) and Mesilla. Cluster routing typically adds a week for the long Mesilla Valley corridor run.

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Last reviewed 2026-05-08. NMLP is a for-profit New Mexico business; donations are not tax-deductible. Library address and phone, July 1 2010 official Anthony NM incorporation date (after January 5 2010 ballot; 73.1% yes), July 1 2013 City library ownership transfer, twin-city relationship with Anthony Texas, and February 1988 joint Leap Year Capitals of the World designation verified against official sources cited above; report corrections to [email protected].