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History · Rodey

Rodey’s post office opened in 1904, and 52% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1959 on.

1904first post office
0on the National Register
52%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Rodey’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Rodey began

When was Rodey founded?

1904

The Rodey post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Colorado (1879), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 337122 years
Founding year: the first Rodey post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Rodey’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Rodey’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rodey’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.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewSt. Francis de Sales Church: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Rodey, in brief

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

Rodey is a census-designated place and colonia in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Rodey had a population of 337. The community is located on the southeast border of Hatch along New Mexico State Road 185 .

Its first post office opened in 1904. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 388 to 337 (-13%).

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

Timeline

Rodey, 1879 to 1959

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Colorado post office opens
  3. 1886Post officeThe Colorado post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1904Post officeThe Rodey post office opens
  6. 1927Post officeThe Rodey post office closes
  7. 1959On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Rodey, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
St. Francis de Sales ChurchDate?St. Francis de Sales Church
On the map

Rodey on the map, 1959 to 1996

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

Rodey on the 1959 USGS mapRodey on the 1978 USGS mapRodey on the 1996 USGS map1959Hatch 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 Rodey.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

St. Francis de Sales Church
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Rodey’s page.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Rodey

Nobody well known was born in Rodey 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
Aaron HerreraGuatemalan-American soccer player · b. 1997
Janice McGeachinLieutenant Governor of Idaho from 2019 to 2023 · b. 1963
Micah LawrenceAmerican swimmer · b. 1990
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Rodey had its own post office from 1904 to 1927. Another post office, Colorado, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Colorado
1879–1886
Rodey
1904–1927
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Rodey Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Rodey
Rodey

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

HatchIts storyC−

Questions about Rodey’s history

What year was Rodey founded?

The Rodey post office opened in 1904, 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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Sources

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 Library of Congress (1), 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.