Carson, New Mexico

Carson is an unincorporated community in southwestern Taos County, New Mexico, United States. Carson was named after frontiersman Kit Carson who lived in Taos. It was founded around 1908, when the surrounding area was opened for homesteading.Carson Community Association Newsletter, January 2009  Carson is a rural residential area with a low population density.

Carson has a post office, with the ZIP code 87517. The area had a population of 460 at the 2020 census. The area had 386 housing units at the 2020 Census. It also had a land area of  and a population density of 13.1 people per sq. mile (5.1 per km).

In the 1930s, Carson was a Mormon settlement. A local trader gave an old colcha, an embroidered woolen blanket, to his sister-in-law to be fixed. She studied the textile and started making new colchas, which led to a successful cottage industry. Most of the Carson colchas were made from recycled woolen fabrics. They were priced reasonably, and sold well. Many are now in the collections of museums.Nancy Benson, New Mexico Colcha Club: Spanish Colonial Embroidery.  2008, Museum of New Mexico Press. 

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Other websites
Carson, New Mexico website

Category:Unincorporated communities in New Mexico
Category:Settlements in Taos County, New Mexico