Welcome to Box Lake ...

So far, we found very little information about Box Lake. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Box Lake to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Box Lake - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Box Lake, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Box Lake , we believe that it would have been located within present day Catron County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Box Lake, you might consider that their post office opened in 1919.

A typical abbreviation for Box Lake: Box Lk.

Time Zone: The area where Box Lake was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Box Lake ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Box Lake - it's located in British Columbia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Box Lake.

Adding Box Lake to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Box Lake in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Box Lake was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Box Lake post office opened in 1919.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Box Lake.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Box Lake, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of New Mexico's counties, including Catron, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/