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Caddoa, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South Bent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81044. The Survey maps it on the Hasty quadrangle. It stands 3,878 feet above sea level.

Caddoa within Bent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 19 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

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Caddoa between 2003 and 2010, burning about 32 acres in total. None 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/undetermined16

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
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
19 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
31 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
30 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
21 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bent County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Caddoa: 5 occurrences, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
UnkClayUnknown
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed Uranium OccurrenceUraniumOccurrence
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Bent County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caddoa in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025HailCaddoa-Hail measured to 1.5 inches fell in eastern Bent County.
August 2025HailCaddoa-Hail measured to 1.5 inches fell in eastern Las Animas County.
August 2025HailCaddoa-Hail measured to 2 inches fell in central Bent County.
August 2025HailCaddoa-Hail measured to 1.25 inches fell in eastern Bent County.
June 2023HailCaddoa-Reported by an NWS Employee, with the time estimated with radar.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindCaddoa-Power pole blown down 4 miles southeast Caddoa.
June 2008HailCaddoa-no account filed
June 2007HailCaddoa-no account filed
June 2007HailCaddoa-no account filed
May 2001HailCaddoa-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCaddoa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bent 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
Hasty4.5 miles19
Able5.2 miles17
Hilton5.3 miles16
Lubers6.0 miles16
Kreybill8.5 miles16
McClave8.7 miles15
Keller9.6 miles18
Four Corners Crossing10.1 miles17

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 CaddoaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5016322The 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 195550. 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.