Estrella, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Alamosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81101. The Survey maps it on the La Jara quadrangle. It stands 7,569 feet above sea level.

Estrella within Alamosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS La Jara quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Alamosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Estrella between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2

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
20 August 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Denver County	not named
6 July 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Denver County	not named
5 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Denver County	not named
30 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carmel Fire Department	UNKNOWN
15 July 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Denver County	not named
2 June 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Denver County	not named
9 May 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Denver County	not named
6 May 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Denver County	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alamosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Estrella: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Alamosa 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
Hartner	2.0 miles	11
Henry	2.4 miles	11
La Fruto	3.6 miles	11
Waverly	6.2 miles	17
Alamosa	7.7 miles	11
Parma	13.3 miles	16
Mosca	19.7 miles	10
Hooper	26.1 miles	9

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 Estrella	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24885410	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 192916. 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.