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Madrid is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and its name is pronounced 'MAD-rid,' with the stress on the first syllable, unlike the Spanish capital.

The 2020 census counted 247 residents in Madrid, up from 204 in the 2010 census.

Madrid lines New Mexico State Road 14, the Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, and is part of the Santa Fe metropolitan statistical area.

Coal mining began in the Madrid area around 1835, and the community's name may come from Roque Madrid, who took an interest in lead mines there in the 17th century, or from the capital of Spain; its origin is uncertain.

In 1891 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway acquired the coal property, and its Cerrillos Coal Railroad built a 6.25-mile spur to the site of the squatter camp of Keeseeville, where Madrid was built with prefabricated wooden miners' cabins hauled in by rail, some from as far away as Topeka, Kansas.

Madrid celebrated its founding in 1895 and was owned outright by a succession of coal companies for the next 80 years, so the town was never incorporated.

Madrid's anthracite coal was prized as locomotive fuel for passenger trains because it burned cleaner than bituminous coal.

The Madrid Miners, a semi-pro baseball team fielded by the Madrid Employees Club, played at Oscar Huber Ballpark, said to have been the first lighted ballpark west of the Mississippi River in the 1920s.

When the Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal Company ceased operating in 1954, most residents moved away, the railroad spur was pulled up, and Madrid became a ghost town for about twenty years.

Beginning in the 1970s, artists and craftspeople bought and restored the abandoned miners' cabins, remaking Madrid as an artists' community whose galleries and shops line its main street today.