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Grants, New Mexico, is the county seat of Cibola County and is located on Interstate Highway 40 about sixty miles east of Gallup. In the 1880s three Canadian brothers named Grant were awarded a contract to build a section of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad through New Mexico. As their work progressed Grants Camp became Grants Station and finally Grants. For a time the town was a successful logging camp. After logging declined in the 1930s it became the "Carrot Capital" of the United States. It also benefited by the completion of Route 66 in 1926. In 1950 Patricio Martinez discovered uranium in the mountains nearby and the town prospered until the 1980s when the local mining industry fell on hard times.
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