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Chacra, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Glenwood Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81601. It stands on Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Storm King Mountain quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,800 feet above sea level.

Chacra within Garfield County

On record in Chacra

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Chacra grew from 329 to 331 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
2010329
2020331+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Chacra between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,744 acres in total. 97 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
Natural97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionRED MUD
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionRAILROAD
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionBEAR WALLO
7 September 1993Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionW S CANYON
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionE ELK CRK3
29 September 2001Natural2.0 acresNorthwest District, Grand JunctionTRAIL
21 September 2018Smokingunder an acreColorado River Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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 Chacra: 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay, Uranium, 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
Revelation GroupUraniumUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
New CastleClayProducer
UnknownClayOccurrenceClay
UnknownClayOccurrenceClay
East Canyon CreekGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary

Every working recorded in Garfield 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
New Castle4.8 miles20
Funston5.3 miles22
Glenwood Springs6.7 miles22
No Name8.2 miles22
Cardiff8.6 miles22
Silt11.3 miles20
Cattle Creek12.7 miles15
Carbonate (historical)12.7 miles19

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 ChacraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5066130The 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 174067. 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.