The purpose of the Carson Community Association (CCA) is to represent the mutual interests of the residents and landowners of the Carson community, and to attend to any other needs identified by members of the association.
CCA takes the lead in organizing several events with the Carson community each year. These include fun events that get neighbors together: the Spring Fling, Fall Festival, and Holiday Potluck. In addition, the CCA works with the Carson Firewise Committee to organize at least one FireWise Day each year. The CCA Board meets several times each year, and there is one general meeting in July each year to discuss issues or improvements needed in the community, and to vote in officers for the CCA Board.
Map showing CCA’s legal boundaries (red line).
Carson Community Association is a non-profit organization, and its work and geographic reach are defined by its Bylaws. The CCA Bylaws define Carson as being in Taos County, and with the boundaries as registered with Taos County Courthouse. These use the Carson Post Office as their center, extending three miles north, and four miles south, and as far east as the Rio Grande. The western boundary is rather less clear, west to the section line parallel to Highway 285, including property owned (in 1999) by the Wiltons which extends west of 285. The Drakes’ property is specifically excluded. We have printed an approximate map of the coverage area here (demarcated by a red boundary). If you own property for six months within that area, or you have lived in the specified area for six months, you are a member of the CCA.
This means that areas such as Three Peaks are not within the CCA area. CCA is stretched to attend to the issues that occur within its defined area, and we hope that other communities might think about forming their own organizations to address their particular needs which likely differ to those of the Carson area.
Members of other communities do, and are welcome to, use programs initiated or run by CCA, including the Carson Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department, which has its own service area clearly defined, and the Carson Food Bank, which serves the communities of Carson, Ojo Caliente, Star, Three Peaks, Two Peaks. Members of other communities regularly attend CCA organized events.
Carson has been recognized as a Firewise community in good standing for 2024. This recognition brings many benefits to our community in support of wildfire preparedness, including reducing fire insurance rates.
Firewise USA® is a program run by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Recognition as a Firewise community in good standing by NFPA depends in part on residents reporting any work we do to reduce fire risks on our property, or on those of our neighbors.
CCA is grateful for the response by various members of the community to our requests to let us know about work that you have done that reduces the fire risk within the Carson community. Thank you!