Conejos, Colorado
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Antonito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81129. The Survey maps it on the Antonito quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,904 feet above sea level.
On record in Conejos
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
Our Lady of Guadalupe Churchlisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresConejos fell from 58 to 46 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 | 58 | |
| 2020 | 46 | -12 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1922 USGS Conejos quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1945 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Antonito quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Antonito quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Conejos between 1994 and 2014, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | RAILROAD 2 |
| 5 July 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Rio Grande National Forest | RAILROAD #1 |
| 14 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Conejos County Office | not named |
| 3 June 2000 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Jicarilla Agency | MONTEZUMA |
| 17 June 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Conejos County Office | not named |
| 5 May 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Conejos County Office | not named |
| 23 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Conejos County Office | not named |
| 23 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Conejos County Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Conejos: 7 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite, Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect | Pumice | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Pumice | Producer | Pumice | |
| Antonito Mill | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Johns-Manville | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Silbrico | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand and Gravel |
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.
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 Conejos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2436399 | 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 190913. 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.








