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Arboles, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Arboles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81121. The Survey maps it on the Allison quadrangle. 308 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,280 feet above sea level.

Arboles within Archuleta County

On record in Arboles

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Arboles grew from 280 to 308 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
2010280
2020308+28 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Arboles between 1992 and 2020, burning about 576 acres in total. 133 started naturally. None 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
Natural133
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
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
9 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeHOLLY
7 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyARBOLES BOWL
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyN ARBOLES
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyNM 38
3 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencySCOGGINS
29 September 2017Naturalunder an acreLos Pinos Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
18 September 1995Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyDEER CNY
17 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFarmington Field OfficeLAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archuleta County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arboles in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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
September 2025Flash FloodArboles$30,000Public reported flash flooding over Archuleta County Road 500/169 Trujillo Road between Arboles and Caracas. There were additional washouts reported near Arboles point, along Trujillo road about 2 miles southeast from the initial LSR location.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindArboles$15,000no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindArboles$500no account filed
June 2025Debris FlowArboles-At approximately 6:20 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm moved southwest of Chimney Rock National Monument, producing heavy rain and hail. This heavy rain fell on an area of very steep terrain and produced a mud flow and small rock slide across Colorado Highway 151. Aside from the road needing to be cleared, no damage, injuries, or fatalities were reported in association with this debris flow.
October 2025FloodArboles-The Piedra River had a rapid rise in levels throughout the morning and afternoon of October 11th due to abundant rainfall starting on October 10th. It first crested to a preliminary level of 5.86 ft around midnight 10/12. A second crest occurred to a preliminary level of 7.26 ft on 10/14 around 1300 MST. This set a new record, beating the previous crest record of 6.4 ft which was set back on 9/6/1970. Most issues were adjacent to the 151 corridor north of Arboles where numerous drives were under water, one garage had some water in it. Forest Service Rd 613 did have some inundation but most bridges had several feet of clearance. USFS 613 which is parallel to the river did have water in some areas.
September 2013HailArboles-no account filed
November 2005Thunderstorm WindArboles-no account filed
September 2004Heavy RainArboles-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Archuleta 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
Stollsteimer8.6 miles17
Carracas8.7 miles23
Pagosa Junction11.7 miles22
Gato11.8 miles22
Piedra14.1 miles17
Juanita14.2 miles22
Chimney Rock (historical)14.3 miles17
Kearns15.5 miles21

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 ArbolesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q385093The 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 184512. 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.

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.