Nara Visa - New Mexico
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N 35° 36.649 W 103° 05.731
13S E 672496 N 3942453
"Nara Visa is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Quay County, New Mexico, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 88430" ~ Wikipedia
Waymark Code: WM10AGZ
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 04/02/2019
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County of town: Quay County
Location of town: US-54 & NM-402
"Sitting in the midst of the Canadian River Breaks, a strip of rough and broken land extensively dissected by tributaries of the Canadian River, sits the small town of Nara Visa, New Mexico. Just inside the state line some 48 miles northeast of Tucumcari, Nara Visa is not a complete ghost town, but certainly is a shell of its former self.
"The ranching town got its start when the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was built thru the area in 1901. The town’s name came from the creek that flowed through it called Nara Visa Creek. In the 1880s a Hispanic sheepherder named Narvaez lived there. In those early years, English speaking settlers pronounced his name “Narvis”, which was corrupted further to Nara Visa. The first person to live in the “community” was Henry F. King, who came to the site in November 1901 to be the first section foreman. At that time, there were no structures except for the depot. He and his wife lived in a boxcar where they boarded trainmen, section men, and occasionally cowboys. In January 1902, the section house was constructed. That same year, a dugout school and post office were established." ~ Legends of America