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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1950 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
19 since 2011Regional 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2020 | Natural | 17 acres | Galeton Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 4 August 2020 | Natural | 50 acres | Briggsdale Fire Department | N/A |
| 25 July 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Galeton Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 25 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | GILL |
| 7 June 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Galeton Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Galeton Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 26 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | PLATTEVILLE |
| 16 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
9 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Barnesville | - | A small tornado touched down in open country but did no damage. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Barnesville | - | Golfball size hail destroyed a wheat crop. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Barnesville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Q116310106 | 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 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.







