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History · Chamberino

Chamberino’s post office opened in 1880, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1943 on.

1880first post office
0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Chamberino began

When was Chamberino founded?

1880

The Chamberino post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 736146 years
Founding year: the first Chamberino post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Chamberino’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 Chamberino are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Chamberino, in brief

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

Chamberino is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Chamberino had a population of 736. A post office was established at Chamberino in 1880; although it was suppressed two years later, it was reëstablished in 1893 and continues to the present day. The ZIP code is 88027.

Its first post office opened in 1880. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 919 to 736 (-20%).

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

Timeline

Chamberino, 1880 to 1943

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Chamberino post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1920Born hereJ. Paul Taylor is born here
  5. 1943On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Chamberino on the map, 1943 to 1996

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Chamberino. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Chamberino on the 1943 USGS mapChamberino on the 1955 USGS mapChamberino on the 1996 USGS map1943La Mesa sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Chamberino.

Questions about Chamberino’s history

What year was Chamberino founded?

The Chamberino post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.