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Eastonville, Colorado

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Black Forest-Peyton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80831. The Survey maps it on the Eastonville quadrangle. It stands 7,234 feet above sea level.

Eastonville within El Paso County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Eastonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 539 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersELBERT
4 September 2010Smokingunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFalcon Fire Protection DistrictN/A
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
2 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersPEYTON
17 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFalcon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eastonville in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 hail. 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
August 1993HailEastonville$50,000no account filed
July 1996HailEastonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in El Paso 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
Peyton4.7 miles13
Black Forest8.1 miles29
La Foret8.8 miles29
Falcon9.2 miles27
Shirley12.0 miles30
Gleneagle13.9 miles28
Calhan14.2 miles11
Woodmoor15.4 miles28

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 EastonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5330874The 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 193298. 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.

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.