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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.

Farisita within Huerfano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

9 since 1999

Regional 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 August 2008Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeBADITO CONE
27 July 2009Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeBADITO CONE
15 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWALSENBURG
11 July 2014Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeBADITO
10 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
18 June 2015Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeHONDO
27 April 2010Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestBADITO CONE
1 April 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLAKE ISABEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huerfano County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bell Air ClaimsUranium, Vanadium, Silver, CopperProspectCoffinite
Stumbling Stud MineVanadium, Uranium, Zirconium, Fluorine-Fluorite, ThoriumPast ProducerCoffinite
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Huerfano County

Storms near this place

11 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Heavy RainFarisita-Heavy rain of 2.97 inches, 4 miles south Farisita.
August 2018Flash FloodFarisita-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 2018Flash FloodFarisita-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 2018Flash FloodFarisita-Emergency management indicated flooding over County Road 520 near the Dog Springs Arroyo.
July 2018Flash FloodFarisita-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 2017Tornado (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 2017HailFarisita-no account filed
July 2009HailFarisita-no account filed
July 2009HailFarisita-no account filed
July 2008Flash FloodFarisita-no account filed
June 2007HailFarisita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huerfano 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
Badito3.3 miles17
Gardner5.7 miles15
Tioga8.3 miles15
Alamo8.6 miles15
Strong9.2 miles15
Malachite10.1 miles18
Delcarbon10.5 miles15
Red Wing11.6 miles18

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 FarisitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q55611473The 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.