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.
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
Cokedale Historic Districtlisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresCokedale 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 129 | |
| 2020 | 127 | -2 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 24 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 Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1900 USGS Spanish Peaks quadrangle1:125000
- 1951 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Trinidad West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
32 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 15 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Las Animas County | not named |
| 2 August 2013 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Spanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 9 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Spanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 23 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Las Animas County | not named |
| 17 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Fishers Peak Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 12 July 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Spanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 9 June 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Stonewall Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 29 June 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Las Animas County | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinidad Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
10 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Cokedale | - | A strong storm produced flash flooding of county roads south of Starkville, with more than 6 inches of rushing water causing minor erosion. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Cokedale | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Cokedale | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Cokedale | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Cokedale | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Cokedale | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Cokedale | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Cokedale | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Cokedale | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cokedale | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viola (historical) | 1.4 miles | 24 | |
| Madrid (historical) | 1.6 miles | 21 | |
| Sopris Plaza (historical) | 2.4 miles | 24 | |
| Tijeras | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Sopris (historical) | 3.1 miles | 24 | |
| Saint Thomas (historical) | 3.5 miles | 24 | |
| Piedmont (historical) | 3.7 miles | 24 | |
| Jansen | 4.5 miles | 24 |
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 Cokedale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2303291 | 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 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.














