Orogrande is an unincorporated community in Otero County, New Mexico, United States, located at a latitude of 32.37111 and a longitude of -106.08389 in the Jarilla Mountains of the Tularosa Basin upon U.S. 54 amongst El Paso, Texas and Alamogordo. Originally a mining town named Jarilla Junction due to its proximity to the Jarilla Mountains, established in 1905, the town was renamed Orogrande (Spanish for big gold) in 1906 and is not far-off from similar mining towns (now enormously abandoned ghost towns) named Brice and Ohaysi. The population soared to nearly 2000 as the result of a gold rush that occurred in 1905, but quickly collapsed roughly speaking to the point of depopulation next the gold deposits proved much less abundant than expected. There are yet numerous forlorn mines in the Place which fall below the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management. Other land with insinuation to Orogrande is part of a military reservation below the rule of Fort Bliss.

The community had a population of 52 in the 2010 census. It is served by a say office and has the zip code 88342.

It is zoned to Alamogordo Public Schools. Yucca Elementary School is the zoned elementary school, and Mountain View Middle School is the zoned middle school. Alamogordo High School is the district’s comprehensive high school.

On July 1, 1959 Orogrande became a share of the Alamogordo bookish district. At that era elementary students went to scholastic in Orogrande while high school students attended bookish in Alamogordo. In July 1959 the literary district closed the Orogrande studious as it felt everything students could enter upon Alamogordo and the district could save money.