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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.

Canjilon within Rio Arriba County

Population over time

2 figures

Canjilon 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.

YearPeople Change
2010256
2020228-28 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

62 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural39
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestUPPER LOPEZ
19 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionLUNA
1 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestGENERIC
8 August 2002Natural1.5 acresCarson National ForestMOGOTITO
6 August 2018Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestBIG SNAG
6 August 2002Natural1.0 acresCarson National ForestMONTOYA SPRING
3 August 1995Natural23 acresCarson National ForestBLAS
29 August 2019Natural2,950 acresCarson National ForestMONTOYA SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Arriba County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Horney ToadUraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rio Arriba County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodCanjilon$30,000A 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 2024HailCanjilon-Quarter size hail fell at mile marker 232 along U.S. Highway 84 outside Ghost Ranch.
June 2006HailCanjilon-About 15 to 20 minutes with small hail and intermittent larger hail reported at the Canjilon Ranger Station.

Every storm recorded in Rio Arriba 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
Placitas2.3 miles13
Cebolla4.8 miles14
Alire7.6 miles14
Las Nutrias8.3 miles11
El Monte Rojo10.5 miles12
El Rito16.2 miles11
Tierra Amarilla16.4 miles12
Vallecitos17.1 miles12

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 CanjilonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5747546The 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.