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History · San Antonito

15% of San Antonito’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the San Antonito Church and Cemetery. Below: maps from 1954 on.

1on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940

What stands out about San Antonito’s past

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

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Start San Antonito’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how San Antonito’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

San Antonito, in brief

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

San Antonito is a census-designated place in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 985 as of the 2010 census.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 985 in 2010, 989 in 2020.

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

By decade

San Antonito, decade by decade

On the map

San Antonito on the map, 1954 to 1990

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

San Antonito on the 1954 USGS mapSan Antonito on the 1976 USGS mapSan Antonito on the 1990 USGS map1954Sandia Park 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 San Antonito.

On the National Register

1 historic place in San Antonito

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1997
San Antonito Church and Cemetery
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Territorial1

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

Famous people

Famous people close to San Antonito

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

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Places that used to be

Old corners

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Pinon Ridge Estates

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.

Questions about San Antonito’s history

What is on the National Register in San Antonito?

One place: the San Antonito Church and Cemetery (listed 1997).

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 Wikimedia Commons (2), 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.