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History · Floyd

Floyd’s post office opened in 1903, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1973 on and the census since 1960.

1903first post office
0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
Quick answers

How Floyd began

When was Floyd founded?

1903

The Floyd post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 423 in 19602020 census: 86123 years
Founding year: the first Floyd post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Floyd’s past

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

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Start Floyd’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Floyd’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.
The story so far

Floyd, in brief

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

Floyd is a village in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Floyd had a population of 86.

Its first post office opened in 1903. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 133 to 86 (-35%).

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

By decade

Floyd, decade by decade

On the map

Floyd on the map, 1973 to 1987

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

Floyd on the 1973 USGS mapFloyd on the 1987 USGS map1973Floyd sheet · 1:24,000

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

People over time

Floyd, census by census

01002003004001960198020002020Peak: 423

Between 78 and 423 people in every census since 1960.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Floyd’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Floyd

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

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Questions about Floyd’s history

What year was Floyd founded?

The Floyd post office opened in 1903, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.