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.
Population over time
2 figuresCañon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 327 | |
| 2020 | 317 | -10 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Jemes quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Jemes quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Jemez quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Jemez quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1952 USGS Jemez quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1970 USGS Ponderosa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Los Alamos quadrangle1:100000
- 1983 USGS Albuquerque quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
97 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 62 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Southern Pueblos Agency | BASEBALL |
| 12 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | not named |
| 9 July 2001 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | not named |
| 8 July 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | PINON |
| 6 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Southern Pueblos Agency | CYRUS |
| 6 July 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Santa Fe National Forest | GARCIA |
| 5 July 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | JEMEZ DUMP |
| 4 July 2004 | Fireworks | under an acre | Southern Pueblos Agency | HWY 4 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Uranium Prospect | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Uranium Prospect | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Pit Number 57-53-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pit Number 59-51-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pit Number 60-42-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pit Number 75-10-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pit Number 75-11-S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| San Ysidro Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Walsh Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jemez Pueblo | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Ponderosa | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Gilman | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Deer Creek Landing | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| San Ysidro | 6.7 miles | 17 | |
| Jemez Springs | 8.0 miles | 24 | |
| Zia Pueblo | 10.4 miles | 21 | |
| Porter | 11.5 miles | 20 |
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 Cañon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5759634 | The 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.










