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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.

Beecher Island within Yuma County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

5 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined4
Natural1

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
27 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWray Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma County Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
24 August 1994Natural100 acresYuma Countynot named
24 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWray Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma County Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
11 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWRAY
28 January 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWRAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yuma County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yuma County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1993HailBeecher Island$50,000An 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.

Every storm recorded in Yuma 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
Armel6.6 miles10
Vernon8.6 miles8
Idalia13.0 miles8
Wray14.2 miles9
Laird15.1 miles9
Hale16.9 miles11
Robb18.7 miles7
Heartstrong21.4 miles8

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.