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HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE ยท NEW MEXICO

A historical populated place in Taos County, New Mexico, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name
Anchor
Feature Type
Populated Place (historical)
State
New Mexico
County
Taos County
USGS Map
Comanche Point
Coordinates
36.7628075, -105.3394482
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GNIS Feature ID
901681

Names and historical notes

Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.

GNIS description

Ephemeral mining camp associated with Anchor Mine

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 901681. Description/History extract: August 28, 2026. All Names extract: September 30, 2026. Retrieved October 22, 2026. Only populated fields are displayed.

GNIS citation text may identify a source series rather than a specific page. It is reproduced below without implying that its underlying documents were inspected.

  • Text N.M. Geographic Names Data Base, 1992. Compiled by Bob Julyan over more than five years of researching individual geographic names in New Mexico. Especially useful for historical names, name changes; and variants. Subsumed within this bibliographical reference is the much larger bibliography of the data base, comprising 235 references, including county histories, local histories, other historical works, correspondence, and numerous oral sources.

GNIS source datasets and documentation

Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.