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Welcome to Afton ...So far, we found very little information about Afton. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Afton to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Afton, please Contact Us. Afton would have been located within present day Dona Ana County<2>. We aren't confident of the location of Afton, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Afton, you might consider that their post office opened in 1923. While the community is gone, the present day location for Afton is 4,210 feet [1,283 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the altitude of Afton is about ¾ mile [or ~1¼ km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Afton was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you leave Afton and travel east, you will leave Mountain Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). If Afton still existed, it would have been in the (575) area code. Communities Also Named Afton ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 33 communities that are also named Afton - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, California (2), Delaware, Georgia (2), Iowa, Kansas (3), Louisiana (2), Michigan (2), Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee (2), Texas, Virginia (2), West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Afton. Communities near Afton ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Afton.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Afton. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Afton. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Afton. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Afton. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Afton. See our Newspapers Page for Afton. Adding Afton to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Afton in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Afton was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). We also found Afton mentioned on a train schedule titled Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (August 1903). For more details, see References and Mentions for Afton. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Dona Ana County: www.co.dona-ana.nm.us/ The official website for State of New Mexico: https://www.nm.gov/ Footnotes ...
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