Pie Town, New Mexico

Pie Town, New Mexico
unincorporated community
Homesteader with dugout house in Pie Town, 1940 photograph by Russell Lee.
Motto:  America's Friendliest Little Town
Pie Town Location within New Mexico Show map of New Mexico Pie Town Pie Town (the United States) Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 34°20′24″N 108°10′15″W / 34.34000°N 108.17083°W / 34.34000; -108.17083[1]
Country	United States
State	New Mexico
County	Catron County
Area
• Total	57.3 sq mi (148.4 km2)
• Land	57.3 sq mi (148.3 km2)
• Water	0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2)
Elevation [1]	7,536 ft (2,297 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	111
• Density	3/sq mi (1.3/km2)
Time zone	UTC−7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
ZIP Code	87827
Area code	575
GNIS feature ID	2584176[1]

Pie Town is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located along U.S. Highway 60 in Catron County, New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 186.^[2] Pie Town's name comes from an early bakery that specialized in dried-apple pies, established by Clyde Norman in the early 1920s.^{[citation needed]} Pie Town has been noted for its colorful place name.^[3] Pie Town is the location of a "Pie Festival" on the second Saturday of each September.^[4] Pie Town is located immediately north of the Gila National Forest and not very far west of the Plains of San Agustin, the location of the Very Large Array radio telescope, which is also located along U.S. 60. In addition, one of the ten large radio antennas that form the Very Long Baseline Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory can be seen from U.S. 60, just east of Pie Town.