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History · Jacona

15% of Jacona’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Ignacio Roybal House.

1on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Jacona’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 Jacona are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Jacona, in brief

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

Jacona is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Jacona had a population of 400. The name is a Spanish approximation of Sakona, the Tewa name of the pueblo which was abandoned in 1696.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 412 to 400 (-3%).

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

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Jacona

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1986
Ignacio Roybal House
Ignacio Roybal House
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Spanish Colonial1
All 1 listings
Ignacio Roybal HouseBuilding · listed 1986

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Jacona

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

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Maria MartinezNative American potter 1887-1980 · b. 1887
Manuel LujanAmerican politician · b. 1928
Scott TiptonAmerican politician · b. 1956
Patricia D. LopezAmerican computer scientist · b. 1950
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Jacobo de la SernaAmerican ceramic artist, Spanish Colonial schol… · b. 1965
Julian MartinezSan Ildefonso painter and potter from New Mexico · b. 1879
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

PojoaqueIts storyCJaconita1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Jacona’s history

What is on the National Register in Jacona?

One place: the Ignacio Roybal House (listed 1986).

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 the National Register of Historic Places (1) 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.