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Campion, Colorado

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Loveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80537. The Survey maps it on the Berthoud quadrangle. It stands 5,118 feet above sea level.

Campion within Larimer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 32 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

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Campion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined274
Smoking17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBerthoud Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBerthoud Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLoveland Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBerthoud Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBerthoud Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
25 September 2018Naturalunder an acreLoveland Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLoveland Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLoveland Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Campion: 10 past producers, 9 producers, 6 occurrences, 1 plant. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
(Facility) Loveland Sugar Refinery QuarryCalciumPlant
Mineral ConcentratesBerylliumPast Producer
Mountain State MillGoldPast Producer
Boyd LakeStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
LovelandStoneProducer
Loveland Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
U.S.Gypsum Quarry M.Y.M.Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Campion in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 hail, 5 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCampion$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds broke tree branches.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCampion-Broadcast media source provided photos of flattened and shredded crops from a combination of wind and hail at a malthouse east of Campion.
July 2024HailCampion-Broadcast media source provided numerous photos of crop damage due to hail and wind at a malthouse. Significant crop loss was noted across 120 acres of distillers corn, 12 acres of trial blue corn, 300 acres of alfalfa and 70 acres of Genie barley. All of the corn and barley acreage was considered a total loss.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCampion-A spotter at Carter Lake, 7 miles west of Campion, registered a peak wind gust to 58 mph (50 kts).
July 2024HailCampion-no account filed
June 2022HailCampion-no account filed
July 2019HailCampion-no account filed
August 2018HailCampion-no account filed
July 2014HailCampion-no account filed
July 2014HailCampion-no account filed
June 2013HailCampion-no account filed
June 2013HailCampion-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCampion-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCampion-no account filed
June 1997HailCampion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Kings Corner2.0 miles28
Berthoud2.8 miles32
Berts Corner3.2 miles32
Loveland3.3 miles28
Browns Corner4.1 miles28
Kelim7.8 miles21
Redmond9.1 miles28
Little Dam9.2 miles30

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 CampionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2640228The 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 178078. 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.