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. This was when the surrounding area was opened for homesteading.^[1] Carson is a rural residential area with a low population density.

Carson has a post office, with the ZIP code 87517. The 87517 area had a population of 460 at the 2020 census. The area had 386 housing units at Census 2020.^[2] It also had a land area of 35.03 sq mi (90.7 km²) and a population density of 13.1 people per sq. mile (5.1 per km²).

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. This lead 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.^[3]

• Carson, New Mexico website

36°21′52″N 105°45′55″W / 36.36444°N 105.76528°W / 36.36444; -105.76528

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