Hooper, Colorado
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mosca-Hooper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81136. The Survey maps it on the Hooper West quadrangle. 81 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,559 feet above sea level.
On record in Hooper
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
Howard Storelisted 2006
Population over time
2 figuresHooper fell from 103 to 81 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 103 | |
| 2020 | 81 | -22 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Hooper West quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Blanca Peak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hooper between 1992 and 2010, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 April 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
| 21 April 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
| 15 April 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 15 April 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
| 6 March 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Saguache County | not named |
| 31 March 2002 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Rio Grande National Forest | MCKINNEY GULCH |
| 2 March 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
| 23 February 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Saguache County | not named |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooper in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Lightning | Hooper | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Hooper | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Hooper | - | 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.
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 Hooper | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q604057 | The 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 204779. 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.






