BlockHiawatha, Colorado
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Maybell-Powder Wash census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81640. The Survey maps it on the Hiawatha quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Canyon Of Lodore quadrangle1:100000
- 1979 USGS Canyon of Lodore quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hiawatha in 2000, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 2000 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | HIAWATHA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hiawatha in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2007: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Hail | Hiawatha | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hiawatha | - | Numerous tree branches were broken off at Brown's Park National Wildlife Refuge. A wind gust of 59 mph was measured at the Ladore RAWS. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Hiawatha | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offield Place | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Powder Wash | 16.6 miles | 11 | |
| Wilson Place | 21.3 miles | 14 | |
| Craig Place | 25.6 miles | 13 | |
| Greystone | 26.3 miles | 11 | |
| Sunbeam | 37.6 miles | 13 | |
| Maybell | 43.0 miles | 14 | |
| Jack Springs | 44.2 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 169706. 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.
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.