Editing Timberon, New Mexico (section)

==History==
The land that now constitutes the community of Timberon was purchased from the State of New Mexico in 1933 by Judge Paul Moss.  Moss had a hunting lodge there and cut some timber.  In the 1960s the land was owned by Willie Farah, of [[El Paso, Texas]] who built an airstrip there.  Development of the community really began when the property was sold to the North American Land Development Corporation in March 1969.  The volunteer fire department was begun in 1974, the firehouse was completed in 1981 and the post office opened that same year.<ref name="TDC-History">{{Cite web|title=History of Timberon |date=10 January 2013 |publisher=Timberon Development Council |url=http://www.timberon.org/community/history-of-timberon/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111014030/http://www.timberon.org/community/history-of-timberon/ |archive-date=11 November 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1976 a missile from [[White Sands Missile Range]] went awry and landed in the middle of the community.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Kohut, John J. |year=1995 |title=Stupid Government Tricks: Outrageous (But True!) Stories of Bureaucratic Bungling and Washington Waste |location=New York |publisher=Plume |page=[https://archive.org/details/stupidgovernment00kohu/page/12 12] |isbn=978-0-452-27314-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/stupidgovernment00kohu/page/12 }}</ref>  The road into Timberon was paved in 2005.<ref name="TDC-History" />

In July 2016 a fire destroyed almost eighty structures, including forty-four homes in Timberon.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Gabbert, Bill |title=Wildfire burns approximately 30 homes in Timberon, New Mexico |date=15 July 2016 |publisher=Wildfire Today|url=http://wildfiretoday.com/2016/07/15/wildfire-burns-approximately-30-homes-in-timberon-new-mexico/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807052747/http://wildfiretoday.com/2016/07/15/wildfire-burns-approximately-30-homes-in-timberon-new-mexico/ |archive-date=7 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=Pierce, David |date=18 July 2016 |title=Timberon Fire now 80 percent contained |publisher=[[KOAT-TV]] |url=http://www.koat.com/article/timberon-fire-now-80-percent-contained/5072245 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201074001/http://www.koat.com/article/timberon-fire-now-80-percent-contained/5072245 |archive-date=1 December 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=Warren, Jamie |date=21 September 2016 |orig-year=First published 18 July 2016, later updated |title=Timberon fire destroys $130K home, homeowners did not have fire insurance |publisher=[[KVIA-TV]] |url=http://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexico/timberon-fire-destroys-130k-home-homeowners-did-not-have-fire-insurance/89141995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201080455/http://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexico/timberon-fire-destroys-130k-home-homeowners-did-not-have-fire-insurance/89141995 |archive-date=1 December 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>