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'''San Francisco, New Mexico''' is a hamlet in [[Socorro County]]. It is located where the [[Rio Grande]] is supplied by its tributary the Rio [[Rio Puerco (Rio Grande tributary)|Puerco]];<ref>{{cite book|title=The place names of New Mexico|page=312|edition=2|first=Robert|last=Julyan}}</ref> the opposite bank of the Rio Grande is occupied by Contreras, formerly [[La Joya, New Mexico|Los Ranchos de La Joya]]. It is unknown when San Francisco was founded, but it was recorded by the [[Wheeler Survey]] and several of the [[1880 United States census|decadal census]]es in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is among many places in New Mexico [[list of places named after Saint Francis#United States|named for]] [[Francis of Assisi]]. |
'''San Francisco, New Mexico''' is a hamlet in [[Socorro County]]. It is located where the [[Rio Grande]] is supplied by its tributary the Rio [[Rio Puerco (Rio Grande tributary)|Puerco]];<ref>{{cite book|title=The place names of New Mexico|page=312|edition=2|first=Robert|last=Julyan}}</ref> the opposite bank of the Rio Grande is occupied by Contreras, formerly [[La Joya, New Mexico|Los Ranchos de La Joya]]. It is unknown when San Francisco was founded, but it was recorded by the [[Wheeler Survey]] and several of the [[1880 United States census|decadal census]]es in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is among many places in New Mexico [[list of places named after Saint Francis#United States|named for]] [[Francis of Assisi]]. |
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San Francisco, New Mexico is a hamlet in Socorro County. It is located where the Rio Grande is supplied by its tributary the Rio Puerco;[1] the opposite bank of the Rio Grande is occupied by Contreras, formerly Los Ranchos de La Joya. It is unknown when San Francisco was founded, but it was recorded by the Wheeler Survey and several of the decadal censuses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is among many places in New Mexico named for Francis of Assisi.
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- ^ Julyan, Robert. The place names of New Mexico (2 ed.). p. 312.