Welcome to Pendleton ...

Pendleton is located in San Juan County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pendleton, you might consider that their post office opened in 1903.

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

Area Code for Pendleton: 505

Communities Also Named Pendleton ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 16 communities that are also named Pendleton - they are located in Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

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

Adding Pendleton to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Pendleton in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Pendleton was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Pendleton post office opened in 1903.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pendleton.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of New Mexico's counties, including San Juan, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/