The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusEl Cerro is a census-designated place in Valencia County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, El Cerro had a population of 2,946. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,953 people in 2010, 2,946 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1985.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of El Cerro 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’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how El Cerro’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10El Cerro, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in El Cerro is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean El Cerro has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is El Cerro Tome Site in Tome, 1.8 miles away.
El Cerro 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.