Rock Canyon, New Mexico

Rock Cabin
(Hidalgo County)

Rock House Crossing
(Eddy County)

Summary

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Current Weather

Rock Canyon is located in Sierra County.

Typical abbreviation for Rock Canyon: Rock Cyn. (or less commonly used: Rock Canyn. or Rock Cnyn.)

Rock Canyon is 1,370 feet [417.58 m] above sea level.^<1>

Time Zone: Rock Canyon lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Rock Canyon, but it seems to be unique to this community.

While we we don't have population counts for Rock Canyon, we do have some information about the surrounding area on the Census Page for Rock Canyon).

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

Community	Direction	Distance ^<2>	2008 ^<3> Population	Change Since 2000
Elephant Butte	S	3 mi [4.83 km]	1,369	1.51% decrease
Hatch	S	39 mi [62.8 km]	1,647	1.55% decrease
Rincon	S	38 mi [61.2 km]	---
Salem	S	35 mi [56.3 km]	---
Truth or Consequences	W	3 mi [4.83 km]	6,784	6.93% decrease
Williamsburg	SW	8 mi [12.87 km]	496	5.88% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Rock Canyon.

The Commemorative
Quarter for
New Mexico ^<4>

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People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Rock Canyon. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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Off-the-Road Links

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Footnotes

<1>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around Rock Canyon - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation
<2>	Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Rock Canyon and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation
<3>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Rock Canyon. - Return to Citation
<4>	All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation

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Last Modified: 05 Nov 2009