Census Data for Rock Canyon

As far as we can tell, Rock Canyon has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.

While we don't have census information for Rock Canyon, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:

• Elephant Butte
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Elephant Butte is located in Sierra County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elephant Butte
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elephant Butte <1>
• Truth or Consequences
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Truth or Consequences is located in Sierra County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truth or Consequences
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Truth or Consequences <1>
• Williamsburg
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Williamsburg is located in Sierra County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsburg
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Williamsburg <1>

Sierra County ...

Rock Canyon is located in Sierra County<2>.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Sierra County.

Miscellaneous Information for Rock Canyon ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Sierra County or the community of Rock Canyon:

• The GNIS Codes ...
  • The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Rock Canyon:
  • GNIS ID for Rock Canyon: 894030
  • GNIS ID for Sierra County: 1702370
  • GNIS ID for State of New Mexico: 897535

• The FIPS Codes ...
  • An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
  • State Code: 35 (New Mexico)
  • County Code: 051 (Sierra County)
  • Place Code: 64160 (Rock Canyon)
  • State & County Code: 35/051 (New Mexico / Sierra County)
  • State & Place Code: 35/64160 (New Mexico / Rock Canyon)

• Misc. Census Codes ...
  • Rock Canyon is located in Census Region #4 (the West Region) and Division #8 (the Mountain Division).

For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Rock Canyon.