Do you know of Placita ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Placita. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Placita.
We found mention of Placita as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in San Miguel County, New Mexico.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Communities Also Named Placita ...
We found three communities that share the name Placita.
There are two communities within New Mexico that are also named Placita.
Beyond New Mexico, there is another community also named Placita in the United States.
- Communities Located In New Mexico ...
- Sierra County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Placita [Sierra County].
- Taos County
- Sierra County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Pitkin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Placita [Pitkin County].
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Placita ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Placita:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Placita - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
More Orphans in San Miguel County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in San Miguel County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Placita could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |