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El Moro, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Trinidad census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81082. It stands on Gray Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trinidad East quadrangle. 216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,880 feet above sea level.

El Moro within Las Animas County

Population over time

2 figures

El Moro fell from 221 to 216 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.

YearPeople Change
2010221
2020216-5 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of El Moro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTrinidad Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
27 September 1992Smokingunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
11 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTrinidad Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
22 August 2014Smokingunder an acreTrinidad Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
14 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTrinidad Fire DepartmentN/A
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of El Moro: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Las Animas 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
Beshoar3.2 miles18
Trinidad4.2 miles24
Engleville5.2 miles18
Forbes (historical)5.7 miles19
Hoehne6.0 miles15
Jansen6.0 miles24
Piedmont (historical)7.5 miles24
Saint Thomas (historical)7.9 miles24

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 El MoroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15216347The 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 194727. 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.