Welcome to Mexican Springs ...Mexican Springs is located Mexican Springs is located in McKinley County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Mexican Springs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1939. A typical abbreviation for Mexican Springs: Mexican Spgs. (or less commonly used: Mexican Spngs. or Mexican Sprngs.) Mexican Springs is 6,450 feet [1,966 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Mexican Springs is about 1¼ mile [or ~2 km] above sea level. Time Zone: Mexican Springs lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you leave Mexican Springs and travel west, you will soon leave Mountain Time and cross into the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST). In addition, you will be moving from an area that observes daylight saving time to one that does not. Area Code for Mexican Springs: 505 The ZIP code for Mexican Springs: 87320<3> The community of Mexican Springs has also been called Nakai Beto. and Nakai Bito (and there are additional names). For more information about the names of Mexican Springs, see The Names of Mexican Springs on our Genealogy Page. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mexican Springs. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mexican Springs. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mexican Springs. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mexican Springs. 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 Mexican Springs. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mexican Springs. See our Newspapers Page for Mexican Springs. Looking for more information about Mexican Springs? 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. In addition to the Tourism page for Mexican Springs, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Mexican Springs. We originally found mention of Mexican Springs 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 (so far) for Mexican Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Mexican Springs.
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