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History · San Miguel

20% of San Miguel’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 3 old photos and papers.

0on the National Register
20%homes built before 1940
3old photos & papers
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From San Miguel’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about San Miguel’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 3 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start San Miguel’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how San Miguel’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo3 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewSan Miguel del Vado, Territorial House,…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

San Miguel, in brief

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

San Miguel is a census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, San Miguel had a population of 975. San Miguel has a post office with ZIP code 88058. The community is located at the junction of state routes 28 and 192.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,153 to 975 (-15%).

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

Timeline

San Miguel, 1894 to 1952

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1894Post officeThe Telles post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1952Post officeThe Telles post office closes
  5. 1952Post officeThe San Miguel post office opens
By decade

San Miguel, decade by decade

Date unknown3 to date
San Miguel del Vado, Territorial House, Upper Pecos River ValleyDate?San Miguel del Vado, Territorial House, Upper Pecos R…San Miguel Del Vado, Warehouse & Stable, Upper Pecos River ValleyDate?San Miguel Del Vado, Warehouse & Stable, Upper Pecos …San Miguel Del Vado, General View, Upper Pecos River ValleyDate?San Miguel Del Vado, General View, Upper Pecos River …
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.

San Miguel del Vado, Territorial House, Upper Pecos River Valley
Retake this viewSan Miguel del Vado, Territorial House, Upper Pecos River Valley

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on San Miguel’s page.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

San Miguel’s post office has been open since 1952. Another post office, Telles, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Telles
1894–1952
San Miguel
1952–today
18901960today
1cemetery inside San Miguel
San Miguel

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

Questions about San Miguel’s history

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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 (3), 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.