The area now bounded by Kathryn, San Mateo, Gibson, and Kathryn at Washington south to Gibson. After some ownership disputes in the early 1900s about a land patent issued in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt, a plat was filed February 11, 1931 for the Ridgecrest Addition, planned by S. R. De Boer.
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
The Digital Sanborn Maps collection is a browsable set of thousands of digitized images of the 1867–1970 Sanborn maps for cities and towns in New Mexico.
The maps contain information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.