Andrix, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Kim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81049. The Survey maps it on the Andrix quadrangle.

Andrix within Las Animas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1892 USGS Mount Carrizo quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Mt Carrizo quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Andrix quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Kim quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Andrix quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Andrix between 1995 and 2018, burning about 2,471 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
31 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
23 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	ANDRIX
12 August 1995	Natural	38 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	WILLOW SPRING
8 July 1997	Natural	2.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SKULL
25 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	MUSTANG CREEK
24 July 2005	Natural	180 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	DELTA
22 July 2016	Natural	273 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	160
20 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	342 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	PRAIRIE STAR

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kim	8.7 miles	17
Villegreen	17.5 miles	20
Tobe	22.6 miles	18
Walts Corner	37.2 miles	16
Branson	40.9 miles	16
Trinchera	48.2 miles	15
Houghton	49.9 miles	16
Delhi	50.4 miles	17

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.

Wikidata item Q122591775

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 196208. 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.