Cañon is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

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Sandoval County Sandoval County () is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 148,834, making it the fourth-most populous county in New Mexico. The county seat is Bernalillo. Sandoval County is part of th ...

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, United States. Its population was 327 as of the 2010 census.

New Mexico State Road 4 New Mexico State Road 4 (NM 4) is a State highway#United States, state highway in Sandoval County, New Mexico, Sandoval, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, Los Alamos, and Santa Fe County, New Mexico, Santa Fe counties in New Mexico, United ...

passes through the community.

Geography

Cañon is located at . According to the

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, the community has an area of , all land.

Demographics

Education

It is within the

Jemez Valley Public Schools Jemez Valley Public Schools is a public school district headquartered in unincorporated Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States; the facility has a Jemez Pueblo postal address, but it is outside of (north of) the Jemez Pueblo census-designa ...

school district.

References

Census-designated places in New Mexico Census-designated places in Sandoval County, New Mexico {{NewMexico-geo-stub