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.
Population over time
2 figuresEl 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 221 | |
| 2020 | 216 | -5 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Elmoro quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Elmoro quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Elmoro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Trinidad East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
61 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Stonewall Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Trinidad Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 29 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Las Animas County | not named |
| 27 September 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Las Animas County | not named |
| 11 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Trinidad Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 22 August 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Trinidad Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 14 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Trinidad Fire Department | N/A |
| 8 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pits | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beshoar | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Trinidad | 4.2 miles | 24 | |
| Engleville | 5.2 miles | 18 | |
| Forbes (historical) | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| Hoehne | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Jansen | 6.0 miles | 24 | |
| Piedmont (historical) | 7.5 miles | 24 | |
| Saint Thomas (historical) | 7.9 miles | 24 |
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 Moro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q15216347 | 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 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.









