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Welcome to El Cerrito ...

El Cerrito is located in San Miguel County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of El Cerrito, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1910.

El Cerrito is 5,710 feet [1,740 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of El Cerrito is about 1 mile [or 1¾ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: El Cerrito lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named El Cerrito ...

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for El Cerrito.

Communities near El Cerrito ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near El Cerrito.

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 El Cerrito. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for El Cerrito.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of El Cerrito. 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 El Cerrito.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around El Cerrito. See our Newspapers Page for El Cerrito.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for El Cerrito ...

Looking for more information about El Cerrito? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to El Cerrito, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for El Cerrito.

Adding El Cerrito to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of El Cerrito 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 El Cerrito was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the El Cerrito post office opened in 1910.

For more details, see References and Mentions for El Cerrito.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New Mexico's counties, including San Miguel, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around El Cerrito - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/