Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Estancia, NM

Estancia is an incorporated town in central New Mexico and the county seat of Torrance County, and it is part of the Albuquerque metropolitan statistical area.

Estancia appears on Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco's 1779 map of New Mexico as a town destroyed by enemies, a reference to its destruction in the colonial era.

The name Estancia is Spanish for a large estate, a cattle ranch, or a resting place, and it is identified with the natural springs found here; the town's spring-fed pond is now its town park.

Torrance County was created on March 16, 1903, from Valencia County and named for Francis J. Torrance, the promoter behind the New Mexico Central Railroad.

The county's first officials were sworn in on January 2, 1905, inside a railroad passenger car at Progresso that served as the courthouse, and Estancia became the county seat the following month.

Estancia's post office was established in September 1903, and the town was incorporated on October 4, 1909.

The railroad turned the Estancia Valley into a major pinto bean producing area, and Torrance County was principally a farming county and a major pinto bean producer in the 1940s.

The 2020 census counted 1,242 residents in Estancia, down 25 percent from 1,655 in 2010.

In the 2000 census, Estancia had 1,584 residents living in 393 households.

CoreCivic's Torrance County Detention Facility, built in 1990 on the east side of town, accounts for much of the population swing: in 2010 more than half of the town's enumerated residents were inmates there.