Wagon Mound National Historic Landmark, National Historic Landmark in Wagon Mound, New Mexico.

Wagon Mound is a roughly lozenge-shaped mesa in northeastern New Mexico whose highest point reaches about 6,930 feet (2,110 m). The village of Wagon Mound lies directly west of it, with two small mesas called the Pilot Knobs farther west. New Mexico State Road 120 runs east from the village along the north side of the mesa, and State Road 271 runs southeast along its south and west sides.

Wagon Mound was the last major landmark on the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail before Santa Fe, and the route was heavily used from about 1822 until the American Civil War. Santa Clara Canyon, about 2 miles northwest, held a spring that supplied water, but its topography left camping groups exposed; a notably large attack, the Wagon Mound massacre, occurred there in 1850. Traffic fell away in the 1870s when the railroad reached the area along the trail route.

The village of Wagon Mound takes its name from the butte, whose silhouette was likened to a covered wagon by travellers on the Santa Fe Trail. The butte and Santa Clara Canyon, about 2 miles northwest, were designated a National Historic Landmark together, and the canyon spring was the watering stop that made the landmark a customary camping place.

New Mexico State Road 120 runs east from the village of Wagon Mound along the north side of the mesa, and State Road 271 runs southeast from the village along its south and west sides. The butte stands directly east of the village, with the two small Pilot Knobs mesas to the village's west. It remains visible from the Rabbit Ears, the next major trail landmark to the east.

The rocky formation received its name because it resembles a covered wagon when viewed from specific vantage points. This shows how people created names based on the natural shapes they observed in the landscape.