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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.

Aguilar within Las Animas County

Population over time

2 figures

Aguilar 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.

YearPeople Change
2010538
2020456-82 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

31 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
4 July 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
3 July 1995Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
23 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
17 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 June 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
26 June 1994Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresLas Animas Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jolly PitClayProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailAguilar-Trained spotter reported.
July 2022HailAguilar-Report of golf ball size hail in Gulnare. Also, one inch of hail accumulation reported.
July 2021Flash FloodAguilar-Roads were washed out in the Mauricio Canyon area.
August 2021Heavy RainAguilar-Heavy rainfall of 2.33 inches.
August 2021Heavy RainAguilar-Heavy rainfall of 2.30 inches.
July 2006Flash FloodAguilar-Heavy thunderstorm rains and subsequent flooding caused major erosion and damage to roads northwest of Aguilar in Las Animas county.
August 2002Flash FloodAguilar-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 1993HailAguilar-Aguilar Police reported one inch hail in town.
May 2015Funnel CloudAguilar-no account filed
June 2014HailAguilar-no account filed
June 2010HailAguilar-no account filed
June 2010HailAguilar-no account filed
August 2009HailAguilar-no account filed
July 2009HailAguilar-no account filed
July 2009HailAguilar-no account filed
July 2009HailAguilar-no account filed
August 2009HailAguilar-no account filed
August 2009HailAguilar-no account filed
June 2006HailAguilar-no account filed
July 2006HailAguilar-no account filed
June 2004HailAguilar-no account filed
August 2004HailAguilar-no account filed
May 2001HailAguilar-no account filed
July 2000HailAguilar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Lynn1.8 miles22
Delagua (historical)4.4 miles21
Rugby4.7 miles22
Ludlow6.1 miles19
Gulnare7.9 miles22
Vallorso8.3 miles21
Reilly Canyon10.7 miles21
Forbes (historical)10.9 miles19

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 AguilarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2425071The 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.