BlockAyer, Colorado
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Timpas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81059. It stands on Hoe Ranch Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Timpas quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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 Timpas quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Timpas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Timpas quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Timpas quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ayer between 1994 and 2015, burning about 529 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rocky Ford Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 9 July 2005 | Natural | 245 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | JACKS POINT |
| 9 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 25 July 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 25 July 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 7 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 121 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | JACKS POINT |
| 2 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rocky Ford Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 16 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | 350 FGH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 195712. 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.