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Capulin, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the La Jara census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81124. It stands on Hot Creek. The Survey maps it on the Capulin quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,825 feet above sea level.

Capulin within Conejos County

On record in Capulin

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Capulin fell from 200 to 134 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010200
2020134-66 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Capulin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined42
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
13 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLa Jara Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
18 July 2010Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
15 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLA JARA
26 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLA JARA
22 June 2002Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficePOSO CREEK
20 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
2 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLa Jara Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conejos 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 Capulin: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. 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, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Conejos County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capulin in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
July 2009HailCapulin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conejos 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
Centro1.9 miles18
Morgan5.7 miles19
La Jara8.0 miles11
Bountiful8.1 miles11
Richfield8.8 miles11
Romeo10.2 miles11
Sanford11.1 miles11
Manassa11.9 miles11

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 CapulinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5037133The 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 190796. 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.