Durango, Colorado

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• La Plata County

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 12 records

• Durango-Silverton Narrow-Gauge RailroadNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Colorado Ute Power Plantlisted 1983
• Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Locomotive No. 315listed 2008
• Durango High Schoollisted 2001
• East Third Avenue Historic Residential Districtlisted 1984
• Newman Blocklisted 1979
• Ochsner Hospitallisted 1995
• Rochester Hotellisted 1996
• Animas Canon Toll Roadlisted 2017
• Animas City Schoollisted 2019
• Main Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1980
• Smiley Junior High Schoollisted 2002

Durango grew from 16,887 to 19,071 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.

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.

• 1898 USGS Durango quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Durango quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1908 USGS Durango quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1908 USGS Ignacio quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1924 USGS Ignacio 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
• 1963 USGS Durango West quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1966 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Durango quadrangle1:100000

1 chapter about Durango from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 340 fires within 5 miles of Durango between 1992 and 2020, burning about 770 acres in total. 82 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Carbon Junction
• Falfa
• Florida
• Grandview
• Griffth (historical)
• Hesperus

Every fire recorded in La Plata County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Durango: 42 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in La Plata County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durango in 104 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 36 flash flood, 26 heavy rain, 12 hail, 8 lightning. The reports record 2 deaths and 3 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in La Plata County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 202983. 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.