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History · Cedar Crest

Half of Cedar Crest’s homes were built after 1986

Most of Cedar Crest was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986.

0on the National Register
9%homes built before 1940
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Photo: John Phelan · CC BY 3.0

What stands out about Cedar Crest’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Cedar Crest are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Cedar Crest, and 4 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cedar Crest’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Kemp, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Casa LomaForest ParkKempSan Antonio
1cemetery inside Cedar Crest
Canoncito

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Cedar Crest, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cedar Crest yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Cedar Crest is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Cedar Crest had a population of 933. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 958 to 933 (-3%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Cedar Crest, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Cedar Crest NM2013Cedar Crest NMPost Office2012Post OfficeDavis Hardware and Variety2012Davis Hardware and VarietyTriangle Grocery and Old Bella Vista sign2010Triangle Grocery and Old Bella Vista signDavis Hardware2010Davis HardwareNMMap-doton-CedarCrest2004NMMap-doton-CedarCrest
Famous people

Famous people close to Cedar Crest

Nobody well known was born in Cedar Crest itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Demi LovatoAmerican singer-songwriter and actress · b. 1992
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Jeff BezosAmerican business magnate · b. 1964
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Neil Patrick HarrisAmerican actor · b. 1973
William NordhausAmerican economist · b. 1941
Jace NormanAmerican actor · b. 2000
Annabeth GishAmerican actress · b. 1971
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Tijeras2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Cedar Crest’s history

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.