Farisita, Colorado
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gardner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81040. It stands on Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Farisita quadrangle. It stands 6,651 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1889 USGS Huerfano Park quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Huerfano Park 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
- 1969 USGS Farisita quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Blanca Peak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Farisita between 1999 and 2015, burning about 101 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | BADITO CONE |
| 27 July 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | BADITO CONE |
| 15 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | WALSENBURG |
| 11 July 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | BADITO |
| 10 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 18 June 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | HONDO |
| 27 April 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | BADITO CONE |
| 1 April 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | LAKE ISABEL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Farisita: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Silver, Copper, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Air Claims | Uranium, Vanadium, Silver, Copper | Prospect | Coffinite | |
| Stumbling Stud Mine | Vanadium, Uranium, Zirconium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Thorium | Past Producer | Coffinite | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farisita in 11 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Heavy Rain | Farisita | - | Heavy rain of 2.97 inches, 4 miles south Farisita. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Farisita | - | Thunderstorm development created heavy precipitation over the Dog Springs Arroyo, South Oak Creek, Chavez Arroyo, and Yellowstone Creek. The Huerfano County Emergency Manager provided a delayed report of evidence for flash flooding over County Road 531 near South Oak Creek. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Farisita | - | Thunderstorm development created heavy precipitation over Yellowstone Creek. The Huerfano County Emergency Manager provided a delayed report of evidence for flash flooding over County Road 530 near Yellowstone Creek. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Farisita | - | Emergency management indicated flooding over County Road 520 near the Dog Springs Arroyo. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Farisita | - | Huerfano County Emergency Manager provided a delayed flash flood report from heavy rain over County Road 530 near Yellowstone Creek in the Spring Burn Scar area. A flash flood warning was issued about an hour before the flash flooding occurred. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Farisita | - | The brief mesocyclone tornado occurred at 11,300 feet ASL. It snapped off and uprooted dozens of conifers as moved northwest and crossed Forest Road 369. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Farisita | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Farisita | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Farisita | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Farisita | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Farisita | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Farisita | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q55611473 | 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 192689. 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.








