BlockCastiel, Colorado
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cheraw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81050. The Survey maps it on the Hadley quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Hadley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
59 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Castiel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,197 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined | 38 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 18 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 7 July 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | San Miguel County | not named |
| 6 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 4 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 27 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 20 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 8 May 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheraw | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Orr | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Old Fort Bent (historical) | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Hadley | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| La Junta Village | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Randall | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Casa | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Shelton | 7.8 miles | 16 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122569736 | The 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 195506. 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.