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Boncarbo, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Weston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81024. It lies near Toisan Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Madrid quadrangle. It stands 6,883 feet above sea level.

Boncarbo within Las Animas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Boncarbo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined17
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2011Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeLEFT FORK
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeROAD CYN
11 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
8 August 1995Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
30 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersTRINIDAD
3 July 1994Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this place

18 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boncarbo in 18 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 17 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2025HailBoncarbo-Hail measured to 1 inches fell in western Las Animas County.
August 2025HailBoncarbo-Hail measured to 1 inches fell in western Las Animas County.
July 2022HailBoncarbo-Trained spotter measured one inch hail just southeast of Boncarbo.
July 2013Flash FloodBoncarbo-Several county roads and private roads around Boncarbo experienced flooding and washouts.
August 2018HailBoncarbo-no account filed
May 2017HailBoncarbo-no account filed
June 2014HailBoncarbo-no account filed
May 2010HailBoncarbo-no account filed
May 2010HailBoncarbo-no account filed
May 2010HailBoncarbo-no account filed
August 2009HailBoncarbo-no account filed
August 2009HailBoncarbo-no account filed
August 2009HailBoncarbo-no account filed
July 2009HailBoncarbo-no account filed
July 2009HailBoncarbo-no account filed
June 2006HailBoncarbo-no account filed
August 2004HailBoncarbo-no account filed
August 2004HailBoncarbo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas 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
Reilly Canyon2.7 miles21
Vallorso5.3 miles21
Primero (historical)5.7 miles21
Cokedale6.3 miles24
Tijeras6.5 miles21
Valdez6.5 miles23
Sequndo6.8 miles23
Madrid (historical)6.8 miles21

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.

Wikipedia article on BoncarboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4941236The 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 194660. 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.

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.