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Gerrard, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Del Norte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81154. It lies in Gerrard Gulch. The Survey maps it on the South Fork East quadrangle. 264 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Gerrard within Rio Grande County

Population over time

2 figures

Gerrard fell from 278 to 264 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
2010278
2020264-14 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Gerrard between 1993 and 2019, burning about 41 acres in total. 19 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
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2014Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestWILLOW
12 September 2009Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestWILLOW PARK
1 September 2002Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestMILLION SPOT
6 August 2013Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestROOSTER
5 August 2002Natural1.0 acresRio Grande National ForestSHAW MESA
17 August 2008Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestLOST LAKE 2
13 August 1994Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National Forestnot named
9 July 2013Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestCHURCH CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Grande County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gerrard: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pog PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Rio Grande 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
Alpine0.9 miles21
South Fork2.5 miles22
Baxterville3.4 miles22
Hanna7.1 miles19
Del Norte12.7 miles19
Evansville14.5 miles19
Summitville (historical)17.0 miles24
Sevenmile Plaza19.0 miles17

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 GerrardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5878894The 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 190282. 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.