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Buchanan, Colorado

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sterling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80745. The Survey maps it on the Padroni quadrangle.

Buchanan within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Buchanan between 1993 and 2018, burning about 214 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/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1
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
2 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
20 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresLogan Countynot named
17 July 2016Natural100 acresSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
27 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
19 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
2 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
20 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN
27 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresSterling Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Buchanan: 5 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 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, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buchanan in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBuchanan-no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBuchanan-no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBuchanan-no account filed
July 2007HailBuchanan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Padroni3.7 miles7
Jessica4.9 miles7
Iliff7.4 miles8
Ford8.1 miles9
Selma8.4 miles8
Griff9.2 miles8
Peetz9.5 miles6
Proctor11.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 171127. 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.