Beecher Island, Colorado
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Wray census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80758. It lies near Roman Nose Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Beecher Island quadrangle.
On record in Beecher Island
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Beecher Island Battlegroundlisted 1976 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Limon quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Limon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Limon quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Beecher Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Bonny Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Beecher Island between 1994 and 2016, burning about 150 acres in total. 1 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 | 4 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wray Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma County Fire Protection District) | UNKNOWN |
| 24 August 1994 | Natural | 100 acres | Yuma County | not named |
| 24 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wray Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma County Fire Protection District) | UNKNOWN |
| 11 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | WRAY |
| 28 January 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | WRAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Beecher Island: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them 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.
Storms near this place
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beecher Island in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Hail | Beecher Island | $50,000 | An early morning severe thunderstorm dumped hail up to golfball size in Beecher Island (14 miles south of Yuma). The hail broke windows and damaged vehicles as well as destroying crops. |
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 183104. 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.




