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Nara Visa is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Quay County, New Mexico, about 48 miles northeast of Tucumcari near the Texas state line.

The 2020 census counted just 51 residents in Nara Visa.

Nara Visa was founded in 1901, when the Rock Island Railroad built through the area and Henry F. King arrived in November 1901 to serve as the line's first section foreman.

King and his wife first lived in a boxcar at the site, boarding trainmen, section hands, and cowboys, before the section house was constructed in January 1902.

The community was first known as Narvaez, named after the Narvaez family, who lived in the area in the 1880s; English-speaking settlers later changed the name into its current form, Nara Visa.

The community traces its beginnings to brothers Sim and Fred McFarland of La Veta, Colorado, who originally came to New Mexico to work on their uncle's cattle ranch and moved to a location near the proposed railroad route.

By 1919 Nara Visa was booming, with eight saloons, at least three dance halls, drug stores, general merchandise stores, a barber shop, butcher shops, millinery shops, auto suppliers, hotels, garages, and a bank.

In 1920 Nara Visa had a population of 651, making it the second-largest community in Quay County, next to the county seat of Tucumcari.

The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl began a long population decline that continued over the following decades.

The Nara Visa School, built in 1921 and closed in 1968, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now serves as a community center.