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Cokedale, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Trinidad census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81082. It lies near Cottonwood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Trinidad West quadrangle. 127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,332 feet above sea level.

Cokedale within Las Animas County

On record in Cokedale

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

Cokedale fell from 129 to 127 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
2010129
2020127-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 24 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Cokedale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1

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
10 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
2 August 2013Natural3.0 acresSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
23 July 1994Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
17 July 2020Naturalunder an acreFishers Peak Fire Protection DistrictN/A
12 July 2013Naturalunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 June 2017Natural1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 June 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas 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 Cokedale: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Trinidad MineClayProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cokedale in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 9 hail, 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 2017Flash FloodCokedale-A strong storm produced flash flooding of county roads south of Starkville, with more than 6 inches of rushing water causing minor erosion.
July 2023HailCokedale-no account filed
May 2020HailCokedale-no account filed
June 2016HailCokedale-no account filed
May 2012HailCokedale-no account filed
August 2009HailCokedale-no account filed
August 2009HailCokedale-no account filed
May 2008HailCokedale-no account filed
July 2004HailCokedale-no account filed
May 2003HailCokedale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas 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
Viola (historical)1.4 miles24
Madrid (historical)1.6 miles21
Sopris Plaza (historical)2.4 miles24
Tijeras2.6 miles21
Sopris (historical)3.1 miles24
Saint Thomas (historical)3.5 miles24
Piedmont (historical)3.7 miles24
Jansen4.5 miles24

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 CokedaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2303291The 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 194669. 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.