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East Las Vegas

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE ยท NEW MEXICO

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

Location Record

Name
East Las Vegas
Feature Type
Populated Place (historical)
State
New Mexico
County
San Miguel County
USGS Map
Las Vegas
Coordinates
35.5969880, -105.2005628
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GNIS Feature ID
914335

Names and historical notes

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

GNIS description

Former settlement adjacent to Las Vegas, now absorbed into Las Vegas

GNIS historical note

Post office 1885-1928

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 914335. 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.