Road Forks, New Mexico

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|name = Road Forks, New Mexico

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|settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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|image_skyline = Road-Forks-New-Mexico-January-2013-looking-south.png

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|image_caption = Looking south from Interstate 10

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|pushpin_label = Road Forks

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|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = United States

|subdivision_type1 = State

|subdivision_name1 = New Mexico

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Hidalgo

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|established_date = 1925

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|population_density_km2 = auto

|timezone = Mountain (MST)

|utc_offset = -7

|timezone_DST = MDT

|utc_offset_DST = -6

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|elevation_ft = 4193

|coordinates = {{coord|32|14|23|N|108|57|10|W|type:city_region:US-NM|display=inline,title}}

|postal_code_type = ZIP codes

|postal_code = 88045

|area_code = 575

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|blank1_info = 893996

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Road Forks is an unincorporated community in western Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States, in the southwestern corner of the state.{{GNIS|893996|Road Forks, New Mexico}}(dead link) It is {{Convert|6.2|mi|km|0}} east of the Arizona border, due east of Stern's Mountain, and at the junction of Interstate 10 and New Mexico State Road 80 (Historic U.S. Route 80). It is {{Convert|15|mi|km}} southwest of the city of Lordsburg and {{Convert|3|mi|km|1}} east of Steins. Road Forks had a post office from shortly after its founding in 1925 until 1955, when postal services were transferred to Lordsburg.Julyan, Robert (1998) "Road Forks" The Place Names of New Mexico (revised edition) University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, [https://books.google.com/books?id=p3fMJnT1gx0C&pg=PA300 page 300], {{ISBN|0-8263-1689-1}}