Del Norte, Colorado
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Del Norte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81132. It lies near Lookout Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Del Norte quadrangle. 1,458 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,884 feet above sea level.
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On record in Del Norte
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 3 records
Keck Homesteadlisted 1998
Sutherland Bridgelisted 1985
Wheeler Bridgelisted 1985
Population over time
3 figuresDel Norte fell from 1,705 to 1,458 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,705 | |
| 2010 | 1,686 | -19 (-1%) |
| 2020 | 1,458 | -228 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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.
- 1915 USGS Del Norte quadrangle1:125000
- 1917 USGS Del Norte quadrangle1:125000, 3 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 Del Norte quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Del Norte quadrangle1:100000
- 2001 USGS Del Norte quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
70 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Del Norte between 1992 and 2012, burning about 83 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 September 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Rio Grande County | not named |
| 14 August 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Rio Grande County | not named |
| 13 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | CSFS-Alamosa District | not named |
| 8 July 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Rio Grande County | not named |
| 29 July 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Rio Grande County | not named |
| 24 July 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Rio Grande County | not named |
| 15 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | CSFS-Alamosa District | not named |
| 13 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Luis Valley Field Office | JEEP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Del Norte: 16 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spiegel | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Rio Grande Granite Quarry | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Del Norte in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Del Norte | $5,000 | A strong storm produced a non-mesocyclone (landspout) tornado just south of Del Norte. There was minor damage to several properties...including one property which sustained damage to a camper and minor structural damage to the house. |
| October 2022 | Heavy Rain | Del Norte | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.19 inches. |
| October 2022 | Heavy Rain | Del Norte | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.07 inches. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Del Norte | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Funnel Cloud | Del Norte | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Del Norte | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Del Norte | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Del Norte | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Del Norte | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evansville | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| Hanna | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Sevenmile Plaza | 6.5 miles | 17 | |
| Torres | 9.3 miles | 18 | |
| Maxeyville | 11.6 miles | 18 | |
| Alpine | 12.5 miles | 21 | |
| Gerrard | 12.7 miles | 21 | |
| Monte Vista | 12.9 miles | 18 |
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 Del Norte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1850407 | 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 190305. 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.










