Lordsburg is a city in and the county chair of Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. Hidalgo County includes the southern “bootheel” of New Mexico, along the Arizona border. The population was 2,797 at the 2010 census, down from 3,379 in 2000.

Lordsburg was founded in 1880 on the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The Continental Divide Trail starts at the Crazy Cook Monument and travels through Lordsburg.
Local lore is that Billy the Kid washed dishes in Lordsburg hotel kitchens such as the Stratford Hotel, and La Fonda, the historic “inn at the subside of the Santa Fe Trail” during his pubescent years.

Lordsburg is the birthplace of the attributed New Mexico declare song, “O Fair New Mexico”. It was written by Lordsburg resident Elizabeth Garrett, the blind daughter of famed sheriff Pat Garrett. In 1917, Governor Washington Ellsworth Lindsey signed the legislation making it the official state song. In 1928, John Philip Sousa presented Governor Arthur T. Hannett and the people of New Mexico an bargain of the confess song embracing a musical report of the Indian, the cavalry, the Spanish and the Mexican.

In December 1938, the Lordsburg Municipal Airport (KLSB) began operation. It was the first airport in New Mexico. In 1927, Lordsburg was one of the stops upon Charles Lindbergh’s transcontinental Spirit of Saint Louis air tour. In the in advance 1950s the airdrome was served by the indigenous Frontier Airlines (1950–1986) which flew DC-3s on a route from El Paso to Phoenix that included stops at Las Cruces, Deming, and Lordsburg, as with ease as Clifton, Safford, and Tucson, Arizona. It is owned by the City of Lordsburg and is southeast, about one mile external the city limits.