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Fort Garland, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Blanca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81133. The Survey maps it on the Fort Garland quadrangle. 464 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,936 feet above sea level.

Fort Garland within Costilla County

On record in Fort Garland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Garland grew from 433 to 464 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
2010433
2020464+31 (+7%)

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.

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Fort Garland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2020Smokingunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
30 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection Districtnot named
27 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection Districtnot named
27 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection Districtnot named
15 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection Districtnot named
1 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
4 July 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCostilla County Fire Protection Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Costilla 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
Blanca4.4 miles11
Garland City (historical)5.1 miles11
Russell11.7 miles17
Fir14.0 miles14
San Luis15.7 miles12
Viejo San Acacio16.1 miles11
San Acacio16.4 miles11
La Veta Pass16.7 miles21

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 Fort GarlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2436335The 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 192831. 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.