Canutillo, Texas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the El Paso Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79835. The Survey maps it on the Canutillo quadrangle. 6,212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,773 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCanutillo fell from 6,321 to 6,212 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 | 6,321 | |
| 2020 | 6,212 | -109 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1917 USGS Canutillo quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Canutillo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Canutillo quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS El Paso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Canutillo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Canutillo between 2012 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.1 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GARDNER |
| 28 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | COACH FIRE |
| 26 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LA JUNTA |
| 31 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2015-0629 |
| 3 May 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAILROAD FIRE |
| 7 April 2014 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 6.1 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DONIPHAN |
| 6 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MORRILL |
| 2 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MORRILL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canutillo in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 8 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Canutillo | $100,000 | Water flooded roads across Canutillo with at least one business near 1st Street damaged due to rapidly rising water. Several roads remained closed for hours to clean up debris. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canutillo | $25,000 | A tree fell on a house in Canutillo. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canutillo | $10,000 | A severe thunderstorm downed about a dozen trees in the Upper Valley near El Paso with winds estimated to 60 mph. Penny-size hail also accompanied the storm. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canutillo | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down in Canutillo from thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Canutillo | - | Road closures were reported on 1st Street in Canutillo due to flooding. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Canutillo | - | Time estimated from radar. Report received via Twitter. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Canutillo | - | Flash flooding was reported at the intersection of Anthony and Doniphan Drive which caused a car to become stuck in the water. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Canutillo | - | Multiple reports of flash flooding in Canutillo due to 5 to 7 inches of rainfall in the region over the previous days. A stalled vehicle needed to be rescued near the Family Dollar on Doniphan Drive. Texas Highway 20 was closed again due to water and debris across the road. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Canutillo | - | Water rushing over the curbs and into yards in Canutillo. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Canutillo | - | Quarter sized hail near Canutillo High School. |
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Canutillo | - | Flooding reported along Resler between Loop 375 and Redd Road. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Canutillo | - | Doniphan Road between El Paso and Canutillo was flooded. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Canutillo | - | A thunderstorm formed in the residual moisture from the remnants of Dolly and dropped very heavy rain on northwest El Paso. Streets were flooded over the curb with run-off from the Franklin Mountain slopes mainly north of Redd Road. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Canutillo | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serene Acres Colonia | 0.3 miles | 17 | |
| La Union Estates Colonia | 0.4 miles | 17 | |
| Hermosa Vista Addition Colonia | 0.5 miles | 17 | |
| Polkinghorn Addition Colonia | 0.7 miles | 17 | |
| Schuman Estates Colonia | 0.8 miles | 17 | |
| Nuway Addition Colonia | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Prado Verde | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Prado Verde Addition Number 1 Colonia | 1.8 miles | 17 |
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 Canutillo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981365 | 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 1353768. 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.
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.








