New Mexico join the Union in 1912. The Land of Enchantment is known for its iconic landscape, parks, and historical monuments, but is also the center of a highly diversified economy. The over two million people who live in New Mexico own at least one phone number for personal or business purposes. Information on these registered phone number owners is available on the New Mexico phone numbers database.
The practice of maintaining a database for phone numbers began in the late nineteenth century. However, the first telephone directories only showed subscribers other people who had a phone number in their area. By the late 1990s, telephone directories, aka white pages, had grown to contain the names and addresses of millions of phone number owners. However, these telephone directories were not always organized alphabetically.
Instead, publishers organized the directories geographically, i.e., by town or neighborhood in a large city. While printing the contact information of phone number owners in a neighborhood was a nice idea, there were two major problems. For one, the increased popularity of mobile phones means more people got new numbers quickly and phone books easily became outdated. Another problem was phone books with hundreds of pages torn off, making them of no use to anyone.
The online New Mexico phone number database solved these problems. The database contains recent information on registered phone number owners in New Mexico. More importantly, it is continually updated to include the information of newly registered phone number owners. A free reverse phone lookup will provide you with the names and addresses of the registered owners of a phone number. How does this work? Put simply, the search engine analyzes the parts of a phone number and retrieves the associated information.
Take the typical New Mexico phone number, 505-NXX-XXXX, for example.
505, is the area code; NXX is the prefix code and XXXX is the line number. The area code only tells you the phone number owner’s general location, i.e., city or county. The prefix code narrows it down further and shows more specific information about the caller’s location and phone type. Finally, the last set of digits, the line number, is unique to a specific owner. So, if a New Mexico phone number were to be a house address, the line number would be a specific flat number or house number.
Although New Mexico phone numbers can have the same area code and prefix code, the line number is always unique to a specific person or business. No two persons can have the same line number. However, it is possible that several persons have owned the same phone number in the past — this happens when a service provider reassigns the number. Either way, a reverse phone lookup will provide the names and contact information of past and current registered owners of a number.
County | FIPS code | County seat | Established | Population | Area |
Bernalillo County | 001 | Albuquerque | 1852 | 676,444 | 1,166 sq mi |
Catron County | 003 | Reserve | 1921 | 3,579 | 6,928 sq mi |
Chaves County | 005 | Roswell | 1889 | 65,157 | 6,071 sq mi |
Cibola County | 007 | Grants | 1981 | 27,172 | 4,540 sq mi |
Colfax County | 009 | Raton | 1869 | 12,387 | 3,757 sq mi |
Curry County | 011 | Clovis | 1909 | 48,430 | 1,406 sq mi |
De Baca County | 013 | Fort Sumner | 1917 | 1,698 | 2,325 sq mi |
Doña Ana County | 015 | Las Cruces | 1852 | 219,561 | 3,807 sq mi |
Eddy County | 017 | Carlsbad | 1887 | 62,314 | 4,182 sq mi |
Grant County | 019 | Silver City | 1868 | 28,185 | 3,966 sq mi |
Guadalupe County | 021 | Santa Rosa | 1891 | 4,452 | 3,031 sq mi |
Harding County | 023 | Mosquero | 1921 | 657 | 2,126 sq mi |
Hidalgo County | 025 | Lordsburg | 1920 | 4,178 | 3,446 sq mi |
Lea County | 027 | Lovington | 1917 | 74,455 | 4,393 sq mi |
Lincoln County | 029 | Carrizozo | 1869 | 20,269 | 4,831 sq mi |
Los Alamos County | 031 | Los Alamos | 1949 | 19,419 | 109 sq mi |
Luna County | 033 | Deming | 1901 | 25,427 | 2,965 sq mi |
McKinley County | 035 | Gallup | 1899 | 72,902 | 5,449 sq mi |
Mora County | 037 | Mora | 1859 | 4,189 | 1,931 sq mi |
Otero County | 039 | Alamogordo | 1899 | 67,839 | 6,627 sq mi |
Quay County | 041 | Tucumcari | 1903 | 8,746 | 2,855 sq mi |
Rio Arriba County | 043 | Tierra Amarilla | 1852 | 40,363 | 5,858 sq mi |
Roosevelt County | 045 | Portales | 1903 | 19,191 | 2,449 sq mi |
Sandoval County | 047 | Bernalillo | 1903 | 148,834 | 3,710 sq mi |
San Juan County | 049 | Aztec | 1887 | 121,661 | 5,514 sq mi |
San Miguel County | 051 | Las Vegas | 1852 | 27,201 | 4,717 sq mi |
Santa Fe County | 053 | Santa Fe | 1852 | 154,823 | 1,909 sq mi |
Sierra County | 055 | Truth or Consequences | 1884 | 11,576 | 4,180 sq mi |
Socorro County | 057 | Socorro | 1852 | 16,595 | 6,647 sq mi |
Taos County | 059 | Taos | 1852 | 34,489 | 2,203 sq mi |
Torrance County | 061 | Estancia | 1903 | 15,045 | 3,345 sq mi |
Union County | 063 | Clayton | 1893 | 4,079 | 3,830 sq mi |
Valencia County | 065 | Los Lunas | 1852 | 76,205 | 1,068 sq mi |