Cañon, New Mexico

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87732. The Survey maps it on the Mora quadrangle.

Cañon within Mora County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1889 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mora quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Santa Fe quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Mora quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

100 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Cañon between 1993 and 2020, burning about 624 acres in total. 41 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CHARLIE
4 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MORPHY
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GARCIA
22 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	ROMO
2 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	SAWYER
19 August 2013	Natural	1.8 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RINCON
7 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Las Vegas District	21-40060035X
7 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CARMEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mora County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cañon: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Great Western Mine	Mica	Past Producer	1949, 1952
Mora Beryl Prospect	Beryllium	Occurrence
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mora County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Abuelo	0.5 miles	16
Ledoux	1.4 miles	16
Pacheco Village	1.6 miles	16
Monte Aplanado	1.6 miles	16
Santa Gertrudis (historical)	2.5 miles	16
Cordillera	2.8 miles	16
Mora	3.0 miles	16
North Carmen	3.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 920433. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.