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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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Del Norte within Rio Grande County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Del 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,705
20101,686-19 (-1%)
20201,458-228 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

70 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking5
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreRio Grande Countynot named
14 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRio Grande Countynot named
13 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
8 July 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreRio Grande Countynot named
29 July 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRio Grande Countynot named
24 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRio Grande Countynot named
15 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
13 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis Valley Field OfficeJEEP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Grande County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
SpiegelIronPast Producer
Rio Grande Granite QuarryGoldUnknown
UnkGoldUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Rio Grande County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2012Tornado (EF0)Del Norte$5,000A 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 2022Heavy RainDel Norte-Heavy rainfall of 1.19 inches.
October 2022Heavy RainDel Norte-Heavy rainfall of 1.07 inches.
June 2004HailDel Norte-no account filed
April 2002Funnel CloudDel Norte-no account filed
June 2000HailDel Norte-no account filed
June 1999HailDel Norte-no account filed
September 1998HailDel Norte-no account filed
July 1998HailDel Norte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rio Grande 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
Evansville1.9 miles19
Hanna5.6 miles19
Sevenmile Plaza6.5 miles17
Torres9.3 miles18
Maxeyville11.6 miles18
Alpine12.5 miles21
Gerrard12.7 miles21
Monte Vista12.9 miles18

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 NorteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1850407The 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.