Welcome to Yates ...

So far, we found very little information about Yates. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Yates to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Yates, please Contact Us.

Yates would have been located within present day Harding County<2>.

The location of Yates has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3>

While we don't have a date for the founding of Yates, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1923.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Yates is 5,610 feet [1,710 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the elevation of Yates is about 1 mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Yates was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel east from Yates, you will leave Mountain Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

If Yates still existed, it would have been in the (575) area code.

Communities Also Named Yates ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 19 communities that are also named Yates - they are located in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan (3), Missouri, Montana (2), New York, North Carolina (2), Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia (2).

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

Communities near Yates ...

We have created a list of 5 communities that are near Yates.

• Gladstone
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Gladstone is located in Union County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladstone
  • Jump to a Google Map centered on Gladstone
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gladstone <5>
• Mills
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Mills is located in Harding County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mills
  • Jump to a Google Map centered on Mills
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mills <5>
• Roy
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Roy is located in Harding County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roy
  • Jump to a Google Map centered on Roy
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Roy <5>
• Solano
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Solano is located in Harding County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solano
  • Jump to a Google Map centered on Solano
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Solano <5>
• Mosquero
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Mosquero is located in Harding County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mosquero
  • Jump to a Google Map centered on Mosquero
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mosquero <5>

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 Yates. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Yates.

We have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Yates. See our Newspapers Page for Yates.

Adding Yates to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Yates 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 Yates was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Yates post office opened in 1923.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Yates.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/