Canjilon, New Mexico
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tierra Amarilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87515. It lies near Montoya Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Canjilon quadrangle. 228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,785 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCanjilon fell from 256 to 228 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 | 256 | |
| 2020 | 228 | -28 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1918 USGS Abiquiu quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Canjilon quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Aztec quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Canjilon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
62 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Canjilon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,436 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 39 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | UPPER LOPEZ |
| 19 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | New Mexico State Forestry Division | LUNA |
| 1 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | GENERIC |
| 8 August 2002 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Carson National Forest | MOGOTITO |
| 6 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Carson National Forest | BIG SNAG |
| 6 August 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Carson National Forest | MONTOYA SPRING |
| 3 August 1995 | Natural | 23 acres | Carson National Forest | BLAS |
| 29 August 2019 | Natural | 2,950 acres | Carson National Forest | MONTOYA SPRINGS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Canjilon: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horney Toad | Uranium | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canjilon in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Canjilon | $30,000 | A strong thunderstorm near Ghost Ranch produced several inches of water along U.S. Highway 84, and mud, rock, and debris were reported along the highway between mile marker 231 and mile marker 234. Several large boulders were also noted to have fallen from cliffsides onto the shoulder of the highway. Damages are estimated for along the highway. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Canjilon | - | Quarter size hail fell at mile marker 232 along U.S. Highway 84 outside Ghost Ranch. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Canjilon | - | About 15 to 20 minutes with small hail and intermittent larger hail reported at the Canjilon Ranger Station. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Placitas | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Cebolla | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Alire | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Las Nutrias | 8.3 miles | 11 | |
| El Monte Rojo | 10.5 miles | 12 | |
| El Rito | 16.2 miles | 11 | |
| Tierra Amarilla | 16.4 miles | 12 | |
| Vallecitos | 17.1 miles | 12 |
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 Canjilon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5747546 | 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 928699. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






