Edler, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Campo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81073. The Survey maps it on the Edler quadrangle.

Edler within Baca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Edler quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
1996 USGS Edler quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Edler between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,690 acres in total. 11 started naturally. None 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
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	73 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SNAKE POND
15 September 2007	Natural	423 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	EDLER
8 August 1993	Natural	3.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
4 August 2011	Natural	39 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	WINDMILL
31 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Park County	not named
24 July 2005	Natural	206 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	CHARLIE
17 July 2019	Natural	2.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	UTE
16 July 1994	Natural	180 acres	Park County	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Campo

Every fire recorded in Baca 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kirkwell	8.8 miles	14
Liberty	9.5 miles	16
Campo	11.6 miles	14
Carrizo Springs	13.6 miles	17
Pritchett	14.1 miles	14
Prichett	14.2 miles	14
Utleyville	14.9 miles	17
Springfield	18.2 miles	13

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 Edler	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115816802	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 196261. 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.