The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusEl Cerro Mission is a census-designated place (CDP) in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, El Cerro Mission had a population of 4,566. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. The U.S. Census Bureau previously considered El Cerro Mission and the neighboring community of Monterey Park to be a single CDP, El Cerro-Monterey Park. The CDP was split prior to the 2010 Census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 4,657 people in 2010, 4,566 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1999.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of El Cerro Mission 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.
Start El Cerro Mission’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how El Cerro Mission’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10El Cerro Mission, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in El Cerro Mission is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean El Cerro Mission has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is El Cerro Tome Site in Tome, 3.6 miles away.
El Cerro Mission and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.