Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Canutillo, TX

Canutillo is an unincorporated census-designated place in El Paso County, Texas, on the east bank of the Rio Grande about twelve miles northwest of downtown El Paso.

Canutillo's story begins in June 1823, when the Canutillo land grant was assigned to Juan María Ponce de León and twenty-nine other citizens of El Paso del Norte, in what is now Juárez, Mexico.

A small agricultural settlement was established on the grant in 1824, but Apache raiders forced residents to abandon it in 1833.

The state of Texas recognized the settlers' land claim in 1858, and the grant was surveyed two years later by Anson Mills, the soldier and engineer who later laid out the city of El Paso.

The Canutillo Townsite and Land Company was chartered in 1909 and a post office was established in 1911; by 1914 the community had four general stores serving the surrounding farms.

Canutillo is part of the El Paso Metropolitan Statistical Area and is covered by the ZIP codes 79835 and 79932.

The 2020 census counted 6,212 people in Canutillo, a slight dip from 6,321 in 2010 after decades of growth from 4,442 in 1990.

At the 2000 census, Canutillo's 5,129 residents lived in 1,479 households, and the community sits along the old Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line in the Rio Grande valley.

Public education in Canutillo is provided by the Canutillo Independent School District, whose first school building, the Lone Star School, was built in 1911, and which graduated its first senior class in 1963.