[3] San Jose has a post office, with ZIP code 87565.

San Jose was founded in 1803 when allotments of land were made to 45 men and two women by the Spanish government of New Mexico.

[6] The purpose of the settlement, and others in the Pecos River valley, was to defend the eastern flanks of the New Mexican settlements from Indian attacks, especially by the Apaches.

Many of the comancheros and ciboleros who traded with the Comanche and hunted bison on the Great Plains came from San Jose and other Pecos Valley settlements.

[7] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has an area of 0.265 square miles (0.69 km2), all land.