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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.

Hooper within Alamosa County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hooper 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.

YearPeople Change
2010103
202081-22 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

8 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
24 April 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDolores County Officenot named
21 April 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDolores County Officenot named
15 April 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
15 April 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDolores County Officenot named
6 March 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSaguache Countynot named
31 March 2002Natural9.0 acresRio Grande National ForestMCKINNEY GULCH
2 March 1994Smokingunder an acreDolores County Officenot named
23 February 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSaguache Countynot named

Every fire recorded in Alamosa County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007LightningHooper$2,000no account filed
September 2013HailHooper-no account filed
June 2010HailHooper-no account filed
October 1998HailHooper-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alamosa 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
Mosca6.5 miles10
Parma16.6 miles16
Alamosa18.9 miles11
La Fruto22.7 miles11
Waverly22.7 miles17
Henry23.8 miles11
Hartner24.2 miles11
Estrella26.1 miles11

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 HooperAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q604057The 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.