The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusCrestview is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 279.
Half of its homes were built before 1991.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Crestview yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Crestview’s history is told.
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Crestview, decade by decade
Before
2000
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Crestview is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Crestview has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Harvey Hotel in Gallup, 6.8 miles away.
Crestview and the nearest listed places
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How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Harvey Hotel’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Crestview?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Crestview’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.