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Gulnare, Colorado

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Aguilar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81020. It lies near Frio Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Gulnare quadrangle.

Gulnare within Las Animas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Gulnare between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeROAD CYN
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 August 1995Natural2.0 acresLas Animas Countynot named
21 August 2013Naturalunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gulnare: 1 occurrence. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gulnare in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2004: 3 hail. 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
June 2004HailGulnare-no account filed
August 2002HailGulnare-no account filed
August 2002HailGulnare-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas 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
Reilly Canyon4.9 miles21
Delagua (historical)5.0 miles21
Vallorso6.1 miles21
Boncarbo7.6 miles21
Aguilar7.9 miles22
Ludlow9.0 miles19
Lynn9.6 miles22
Forbes (historical)10.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 204808. 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.