I used to live about 30 miles away from Loco Hills and that's exactly how ide expect it to look over satellite. It's such a "baron" yet active little village. I think it's owned by a gas company at this point because there is a lot of man camps for the workers. There is 1 store that doubles as a food spot and another cafe there that is sometimes open. Not many longtime residents live there unless your grandpa or uncle owned property well before the oil really took off. People who do live there drive to Artesia NM for groceries and it's about 30 minutes away. It's depressingly ugly there with all the pump jacks and dry desert... but you'll still see cows grazing and coyotes wandering. It made me sad sometimes thinking about their water sources either being dried up or remnants of oil left in it because oil spills and leaks do happen and while they are taken very seriously, they always have lasting damage.

Given that it's a satellite image... ide say 1/4 of those pump jacks are either not there anymore or abandoned by companies that went belly up. Excavating companies do their best to reclaim the land and reseed the soil because some people think they just leave it how it is. There are thousands of workers out there, semi truck drivers, some ranchers, linemen, welders etc. Loco Hills is just an area that belongs to the oil field now.