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History · Fairacres

Fairacres’ post office opened in 1926

Most of Fairacres was built recently: 0.4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1998. Below: maps from 1941 on.

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How Fairacres began

When was Fairacres founded?

1926

The Fairacres post office opened in 1926, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 720100 years
Founding year: the first Fairacres post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Fairacres’ past

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

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The story so far

Fairacres, in brief

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

Fairacres is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Fairacres had a population of 720. Fairacres has a post office with ZIP code 88033, which opened on June 15, 1926. U.S. Route 70 passes through the community.

Its first post office opened in 1926. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 824 to 720 (-13%).

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

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On the map

Fairacres on the map, 1941 to 1996

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

Fairacres on the 1941 USGS mapFairacres on the 1978 USGS mapFairacres on the 1996 USGS map1941Las Cruces 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 Fairacres.

Famous people

Famous people close to Fairacres

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

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Anwar al-AwlakiAmerican-Yemeni imam and suspected Islamist ext… · b. 1971
Shawnacy BarberCanadian pole vaulter · b. 1994
Edgar CastilloMexican-American soccer player · b. 1986
Silvestre ReyesAmerican politician · b. 1944
Aaron HerreraGuatemalan-American soccer player · b. 1997
Janice McGeachinLieutenant Governor of Idaho from 2019 to 2023 · b. 1963

Questions about Fairacres’ history

What year was Fairacres founded?

The Fairacres post office opened in 1926, 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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.