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Chama, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the San Luis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81152. It stands on Vallejos Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Luis quadrangle. It stands 8,179 feet above sea level.

Chama within Costilla County

On record in Chama

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Chama between 1994 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
11 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
7 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
5 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
30 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
30 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Costilla County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chama in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 flash flood. 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 2022Flash FloodChama-Flooding along County Road R and the San Luis Peoples ditch near San Luis.

Every storm recorded in Costilla 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
San Pedro1.3 miles12
San Pablo1.3 miles12
Los Fuertes1.9 miles12
San Luis3.6 miles12
La Valley4.4 miles11
Viejo San Acacio7.4 miles11
San Acacio10.5 miles11
Mesita12.6 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 ChamaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5069321The 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 203659. 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.

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.