Aguilar, Colorado
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Aguilar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81020. It lies near Gonzales Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Aguilar quadrangle. 456 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,394 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAguilar fell from 538 to 456 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 538 | |
| 2020 | 456 | -82 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1891 USGS Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1900 USGS Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Aguilar quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
31 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Aguilar between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Spanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 13 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
| 4 July 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Las Animas County | not named |
| 3 July 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Las Animas County | not named |
| 23 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
| 17 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Spanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 8 June 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Spanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 26 June 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Las Animas County | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Aguilar: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jolly Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aguilar in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 18 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Hail | Aguilar | - | Trained spotter reported. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Aguilar | - | Report of golf ball size hail in Gulnare. Also, one inch of hail accumulation reported. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Aguilar | - | Roads were washed out in the Mauricio Canyon area. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Aguilar | - | Heavy rainfall of 2.33 inches. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Aguilar | - | Heavy rainfall of 2.30 inches. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Aguilar | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains and subsequent flooding caused major erosion and damage to roads northwest of Aguilar in Las Animas county. |
| August 2002 | Flash Flood | Aguilar | - | A 15 to 20 foot wide swath of water flowed across a low water crossing over a concrete frontage road near Aguilar. In addition...all dry arroyos in the area were out of their banks. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Aguilar | - | Aguilar Police reported one inch hail in town. |
| May 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Aguilar | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynn | 1.8 miles | 22 | |
| Delagua (historical) | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Rugby | 4.7 miles | 22 | |
| Ludlow | 6.1 miles | 19 | |
| Gulnare | 7.9 miles | 22 | |
| Vallorso | 8.3 miles | 21 | |
| Reilly Canyon | 10.7 miles | 21 | |
| Forbes (historical) | 10.9 miles | 19 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Aguilar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2425071 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 194464. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.













