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Do you know of Martinez ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Martinez. 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 Martinez.

Our sources for Martinez (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Martinez other than they indicate that Martinez would be found somewhere in Colfax County, New Mexico.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1902.

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 Martinez ...

We found eight communities that share the name Martinez.

There are two communities within New Mexico that are also named Martinez.

Beyond New Mexico, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In New Mexico ...
    • San Juan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Martinez [San Juan County].
    • Torrance County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Martinez [Torrance County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arizona
      • Yavapai County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Martinez [Yavapai County].
    • California
      • Contra Costa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Martinez [Contra Costa County].
      • Riverside County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Martinez [Riverside County].
      • Tuolumne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Martinez [Tuolumne County].
    • Georgia
      • Columbia County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Martinez [Columbia County].
    • Texas
      • Bexar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Martinez [Bexar County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Martinez ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Martinez:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Martinez - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Colfax 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 Colfax County.

Alps 
 Leighton
Blethens 
 McAlpine's
Chico SpringsMonte Verde
CimilorioMount Dora
Clayton 
 Pels
Des MoinesPena Flor
 Ponil
Emery Gap 
ExeterSpring Hill
  
FolsomUte Creek
French Corners 
 Vasquez
GladstoneVeda
GrandeVermejo Park
Grenville 
 Wilders
Hillside 
 York Canyon
Kelleyville 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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