Several viewers of my stateline towns page have questioned me about "Oklarado". It hasn't shown up on maps for years, and it's not listed in more recent geographic names databases. But it was a real town: it had a post office from 1916-1935. A web search will turn up a few pages - mostly genealogies and obituaries listing people who were born there or who died there. The only map on which I've personally seen Oklarado is my 1959 Gousha road atlas:
According to the legend for that map, the little square at Oklarado's location identifies it as a "community" (which is an even smaller classification than the dot indicating "population under 1000"). It's shown at the southeast corner of the intersection of Baca county roads "R" and "8". (Notice the roads in the immediate vicinity are shown as "unimproved dirt", but today CR "10" [the north/south road that connects to hwy. 160] is one of the main roads serving the area.) Based on the town's location, perhaps it should've been called "Oklamexorado" (you can view the actual tri-state monument on this page). Most of the other toponyms shown on this map are ghost towns now as well - it's not a forgiving place to live.
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