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Barnesville, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kersey-Gill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80624. The Survey maps it on the Barnesville quadrangle. It stands 4,656 feet above sea level.

Barnesville within Weld County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

19 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Barnesville between 2011 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 August 2020Natural17 acresGaleton Fire Protection DistrictN/A
4 August 2020Natural50 acresBriggsdale Fire DepartmentN/A
25 July 2018Smokingunder an acreGaleton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGILL
7 June 2018Smokingunder an acreGaleton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGaleton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
26 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersPLATTEVILLE
16 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Barnesville: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnesville in 9 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 8 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Barnesville-A small tornado touched down in open country but did no damage.
July 2005HailBarnesville-Golfball size hail destroyed a wheat crop.
August 2019HailBarnesville-no account filed
June 2018HailBarnesville-no account filed
July 2016HailBarnesville-no account filed
July 2016HailBarnesville-no account filed
August 2015HailBarnesville-no account filed
August 2015HailBarnesville-no account filed
July 2005HailBarnesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Matthews1.0 miles14
Gill3.7 miles18
Cornish4.6 miles14
Alden5.6 miles18
Lowe6.2 miles18
Galeton6.3 miles18
Kuner7.1 miles14
Spanish Village7.4 miles18

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 Q116310106The 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 180670. 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.