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Dunul, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sargent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81144. The Survey maps it on the Center South quadrangle.

Dunul within Rio Grande County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Dunul between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
24 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
6 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSaguache Countynot named
11 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
7 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
30 April 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSaguache Countynot named
12 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
9 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
31 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Grande County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dunul: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Vastine1.9 miles17
Ansel2.8 miles17
Maxeyville3.9 miles18
Homelake6.0 miles16
Monte Vista6.2 miles18
Sugar Junction6.5 miles16
Torres6.6 miles18
Zinzer7.0 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122563972The 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 190325. 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.