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Egnar, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the West San Miguel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81325. The Survey maps it on the Egnar quadrangle. It stands 7,329 feet above sea level.

Egnar within San Miguel County

On record in Egnar

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Egnar between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,098 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Debris and open burning1

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
9 September 1995Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseSPUD
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseBUSH
3 September 1996Natural5.0 acresSouthwest District, MontroseNORMA JEAN
26 September 2008Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
28 August 2018Naturalunder an acreTres Rios Field OfficeSOUTH CREEK
28 August 2014Naturalunder an acreTres Rios Field OfficeSPUD
21 August 2019Naturalunder an acreTres Rios Field OfficeBELL
20 August 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseBUSH

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 133 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 133 workings within 5 miles of Egnar: 64 past producers, 34 unknowns, 26 occurrences, 5 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Uranium. 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
Slickrock ConcentratorDiatomite, SilverUnknown
Todd & Williams Plant & DumpUranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, VanadiumUnknown
Governor MineVanadium, UraniumPast Producer
HangoverVanadium, UraniumPast Producer1955
I. V.Vanadium, UraniumPast Producer
Joe Bush GroupVanadium, UraniumUnknown
Lucky DayVanadium, UraniumUnknown
Marie 1Vanadium, UraniumUnknown
MontezumaVanadium, UraniumPast Producer
Moqui JugVanadium, UraniumUnknown1942

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Egnar in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 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 2023FloodEgnar$2,000A CoCoRaHS observer southwest of Redvale reported flooding as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms. Over an inch of rain was recorded, which led to partial erosion of the observer's irrigation ditch.
July 2010Heavy RainEgnar$500An access road to Highway 141 was washed out in one spot due to runoff from heavy rainfall.
June 2025Debris FlowEgnar-The Colorado Department of Transportation closed down both lanes of Colorado Highway 145 at mile marker 95 due to a mudslide around 1:35 PM MDT. This closure was lifted later that afternoon, once the road was cleared of mud. No reports of damages, fatalities, or injuries were received other than the temporary road closure.
May 2023FloodEgnar-Flooding occurred at the Gypsum Valley Boat Launch as a result of increased snowmelt and flow along the Dolores River.
August 2011Flash FloodEgnar-Flash flooding caused normally dry washes to run full and out of banks onto residences in the Egnar area.
August 2007Heavy RainEgnar-Rainfall runoff from slow moving thunderstorms over southwest San Miguel County deposited debris on Highway 141 at various places from just south of Egnar to Slick Rock. Colorado Department of Transportation road crews used plows to clear the debris.
August 2006Flash FloodEgnar-no account filed
September 2003Heavy RainEgnar-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindEgnar-no account filed
September 2000HailEgnar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Miguel 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
Beards Corner20.2 miles20
Basin23.7 miles20
Norwood37.4 miles16
Placerville47.5 miles18
Leonard (historical)49.5 miles18
Sawpit50.0 miles14
Vanadium51.4 miles27
Lime53.6 miles27

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 EgnarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3541462The 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 176280. 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.