Welcome to Burns Canyon ...

So far, we found very little information about Burns Canyon. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Burns Canyon to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Burns Canyon - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Burns Canyon, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Burns Canyon <3>, we believe that it would have been located within present day Rio Arriba County<2>.

A typical abbreviation for Burns Canyon: Burns Cyn. (or less commonly used: Burns Canyn. or Burns Cnyn.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Burns Canyon for more information about variations on the name of Burns Canyon.

Time Zone: The area where Burns Canyon was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Burns Canyon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of New Mexico's counties, including Rio Arriba, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Burns Canyon may originally have been Burn's Canyon. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Burns Canyon might be written as Burn Canyon. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Burns Canyon.