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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.

Conejos within Conejos County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Conejos 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.

YearPeople Change
201058
202046-12 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

21 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
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
5 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeRAILROAD 2
5 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRio Grande National ForestRAILROAD #1
14 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
3 June 2000Natural1.5 acresJicarilla AgencyMONTEZUMA
17 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
5 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresConejos County Officenot named
23 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
23 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conejos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
ProspectPumiceProspect
UnknownPumiceProducerPumice
Antonito MillPerliteProducer
Johns-ManvillePerliteProducer
SilbricoPerliteProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Conejos 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
Guadalupe0.6 miles18
Antonito0.9 miles18
Paisaje2.6 miles18
Lobatos3.8 miles11
Mogote4.3 miles18
San Antonio4.7 miles18
Espinosa4.9 miles11
La Isla5.0 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 ConejosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2436399The 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.