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Welcome to Portales ...The city of Portales is located in southeast New Mexico. Portales is located in Roosevelt County<1> and is the County Seat for Roosevelt County. The location of Portales has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<2> While we don't have a date for the founding of Portales, you might consider that their post office opened in 1899. From the Census Estimates for 2019, Portales has a population of 11,590 people<3> (see below for details). The community of Portales is 4,010 feet [1,222 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the altitude of Portales is ¾ mile [or ~1¼ km] above sea level. Time Zone: Portales lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Portales (for example, toward Muleshoe (TX)), you will leave Mountain Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). The area code for Portales: (575) Websites for Portales ...Official Website: www.portalesnm.org/ Chamber of Commerce: www.portales.com/ Population Details ...Taken from the 2019 Census Estimates, Portales had an population of 11,590 people. This is a decrease of 5.62% since the 2010 Census (or an increase of 4.12% since the 2000 Census). At the time of the 2010 Census, Portales had a population of 12,280 people (which is 61.88% of the total population of Roosevelt County). This makes Portales the county's most populous community. The population of Portales represents 0.6% of the total population of New Mexico (which has 2,059,179 people), making it the state's 16th most populous community. With a 2010 count of 12,280 people, the population of Portales increased 10.32% from the 2000 Census (with a count of 11,131 people). More information can be found on the Census Page for Portales. Communities near Portales ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Portales.
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 Portales. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Portales. We have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Portales. Our list includes 20 papers. See our Newspapers Page for Portales. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Portales ...Looking for more information about Portales? 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 Portales, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Portales. Adding Portales to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Portales 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 Portales was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Portales on a map titled Rand McNally Map of New Mexico (1920). For more details, see References and Mentions for Portales. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Portales: www.portalesnm.org/ The official website for Roosevelt County: www.rooseveltcounty.com/ The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/ Footnotes ...
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