Do you know of San Mateo ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about San Mateo. 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 San Mateo.<1>
Our sources for San Mateo (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 San Mateo other than they indicate that San Mateo would be found somewhere in Valencia County, New Mexico.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1876.
Communities Also Named San Mateo ...
We found five communities that share the name San Mateo.
There is one other community in New Mexico which is also named San Mateo.
Beyond New Mexico, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In New Mexico ...
- Cibola County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Mateo [Cibola County].
- Cibola County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for San Mateo ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about San Mateo:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for San Mateo - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Valencia County ...
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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 Valencia County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |