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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Punta de Agua. 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 Punta de Agua.
Our sources for Punta de Agua (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Punta de Agua other than they indicate that Punta de Agua would be found somewhere in Valencia 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.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Punta de Agua ...
We found one communities that share the name Punta de Agua.
There is one other community in New Mexico which is also named Punta de Agua.
Beyond New Mexico.
- Communities Located In New Mexico ...
- Torrance County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Punta de Agua [Torrance County].
- Torrance County
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Punta de Agua ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Punta de Agua:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Punta de Agua - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Valencia County ...
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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 Valencia County.