Welcome to Preston ...
So far, we found very little information about Preston. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Preston to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Preston - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Preston, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Preston , we believe that it would have been located within present day Curry County<2>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Preston, you might consider that their post office opened in 1907.
Time Zone: The area where Preston was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time
Preston would have been located in the (575) area code.
Communities Also Named Preston ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 46 communities that are also named Preston - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Manitoba, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (2), Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio (2), Oklahoma (2), Ontario, Pennsylvania (3), South Dakota, Tennessee (2), Texas (3), Virginia (2), Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Preston.
Adding Preston to Our Gazetteer ...
As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.
The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Preston was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
From that list, the Preston post office opened in 1907.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Preston.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Curry County: www.currycounty.org/
The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Preston, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of New Mexico's counties, including Curry, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |