New Mexico Towns & Streets

Play in New Mexico: 278 real towns from Albuquerque to Las Cruces, real streets for your bus stops, and real names for train stations and airports.

Pick the name set "New Mexico (Towns & Streets)" for a new game. Then just build: every new Road Stop and station in a known city gets a real local name a moment after you place it.

Features

• New Mexico towns: a name set with 278 real towns and places, from big cities to small adobe villages, pueblos, ranch and railroad towns (US Census Bureau data).
• Towns that suit your map: a new game picks its towns by the map's climate. Temperate maps: mostly the Rio Grande valley, plus the northern mountains and the Four Corners country. Dry maps: mostly the Chihuahuan desert, plus the eastern plains, the Four Corners country and the Rio Grande valley. Subarctic maps: mostly the northern mountains, plus the Four Corners country. Tropical maps: mostly the Chihuahuan desert, plus the Rio Grande valley. Climates from other mods use the whole state.
• Real street names: new Road Stops in 12 cities (Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Rio Rancho, …) are named after their real streets, like Central Avenue or Cerrillos Road: 401 streets in all, never twice in the same town.
• New Mexico-style streets everywhere else: other towns draw their stop names from 128 street names in the local style (chile, adobe, acequias, mesas, ranges, Spanish caminos and Route 66).
• Real station names: new train stations and airports in 28 cities get real names, like Santa Fe Depot, Alvarado Transportation Center or Albuquerque International Sunport (9 rail stations, 26 airports).
• Neighbourhood names: new bus and tram stations in 2 cities are named after real neighbourhoods (50 in all).
• Everything else follows: industries, depots and their stations are named after your New Mexico towns by the game itself.

Settings

• Real street names (default On): renames new Road Stops in known cities after their real streets.
• Real station names (default On): renames new train stations, bus and tram stations, airports and harbours in known cities.

Notes

• Unlike a plain name set, this mod also renames the stops and stations you build after real streets, stations and neighbourhoods in their city.
• Street and station names also work with any other name set, in towns that carry a New Mexico city's name (rename a town to Albuquerque and its next stop is on a real Albuquerque street).
• Only renames what you build, right after you build it. Existing stops and stations are never touched, and neither are your own renames.
• Cosmetic only, safe to add to an existing save. A game started with the "New Mexico (Towns & Streets)" name set needs this mod to load; in any other save, removing it keeps the names already given and stops renaming.
• Not affiliated with the "New Mexico Names" mod; all lists here are our own.
• Streets cover 12 cities (Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, Rio Rancho and eight regional towns); every other town uses the generic New Mexico pool.

Credits

• Towns and populations: US Census Bureau (public domain). Street, station and neighbourhood lists: our own selection of well-known real names.
• State flag on the cover: Wikimedia Commons (public domain, ).

Changelog

Revision 4 (2026-10-09)

• Clearer description: says up front that the mod renames the stops and stations you build, not just the default name lists.

Revision 3 (2026-10-08)

• Faster in the map editor: the mod no longer reads every mod's settings on every frame.

Revision 2 (2026-10-08)

• Faster: less work on every build and every frame, and a quicker street name check in big towns.

Revision 1 (2026-10-08)

• New: first release.