Behold the ancestral home. My grandparents' parents ranched Claunch, NM and the Mountainair valley as sharecroppers. 400 acres of cattle, subsistence corn, the whole nine yards. Then a drought hit in 1908. And since the soil is so alkali and the groundwater so brutally artesian, if you sunk a well and watered your trees with it they'd die. Town of 400 people up and left. What's left now is the church. The family (7 sons, 8 daughters, of which my grandfather was the 4th oldest) reunites every year down there because it was Great Grandma's "dying wish." there's nothing but dust, heart disease and fried catfish. California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah... are full of townships that are about to cease to exist. Purchase your real estate accordingly.