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Cañon, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Jemez-Zia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87024. It lies in Cañon de San Diego. The Survey maps it on the Ponderosa quadrangle. 317 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,689 feet above sea level.

Cañon within Sandoval County

Population over time

2 figures

Cañon fell from 327 to 317 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010327
2020317-10 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Cañon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning62
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyBASEBALL
12 August 1992Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National Forestnot named
9 July 2001Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
8 July 2017Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestPINON
6 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyCYRUS
6 July 1999Naturalunder an acreSanta Fe National ForestGARCIA
5 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionJEMEZ DUMP
4 July 2004Fireworksunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyHWY 4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandoval County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cañon: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Indian SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Unnamed Uranium ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed Uranium ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Pit Number 57-53-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit Number 59-51-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit Number 60-42-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit Number 75-10-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit Number 75-11-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
San Ysidro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Walsh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sandoval 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Jemez Pueblo3.0 miles21
Ponderosa3.6 miles20
Gilman4.3 miles18
Deer Creek Landing6.4 miles18
San Ysidro6.7 miles17
Jemez Springs8.0 miles24
Zia Pueblo10.4 miles21
Porter11.5 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CañonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5759634The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 928702. 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.