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History · Sacramento

Sacramento’s post office opened in 1935, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Weed Lookout Tower. Below: maps from 1952 on.

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Quick answers

How Sacramento began

When was Sacramento founded?

1935

The Sacramento post office opened in 1935, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Chiquita (1935), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 5391 years
Founding year: the first Sacramento post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Sacramento’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 Sacramento are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sacramento’s history is told.

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The story so far

Sacramento, in brief

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

Sacramento is a census-designated place in Otero County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, Sacramento had a population of 53. Sacramento has a post office with ZIP code 88347. New Mexico State Road 521 passes through the community.

Its first post office opened in 1935. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 58 to 53 (-9%).

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

Timeline

Sacramento, 1926 to 1952

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1926BuiltWeed Lookout Tower is built
  3. 1935Post officeThe Chiquita post office opens
  4. 1935Post officeThe Chiquita post office closes
  5. 1935Post officeThe Sacramento post office opens
  6. 1952On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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 map

Sacramento on the map, 1952 to 2004

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

Sacramento on the 1952 USGS mapSacramento on the 1974 USGS mapSacramento on the 2004 USGS map1952Cloudcroft 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 Sacramento.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Sacramento

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

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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first listed
1988
Weed Lookout Tower
Weed Lookout Tower, built 1926
Structures
Weed Lookout TowerBuilt 1926

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Sacramento

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

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Kim StanleyAmerican actress · b. 1925
Ronny CoxAmerican actor and musician · b. 1938
Edward CondonAmerican physicist · b. 1902
Jan ClaytonAmerican actress · b. 1917
Edwin L. MechemAmerican judge and politician · b. 1912
Edward Lee HowardCIA officer · b. 1951
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Sacramento’s post office has been open since 1935. Another post office, Chiquita, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Chiquita
1935–1935
Sacramento
1935–today
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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.

WeedIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Sacramento’s history

What year was Sacramento founded?

The Sacramento post office opened in 1935, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Sacramento?

One place: the Weed Lookout Tower (listed 1988).

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 National Register of Historic Places (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.