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Ignacio, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Ignacio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81137. It lies near Rattlesnake Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ignacio quadrangle. 852 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,516 feet above sea level.

Ignacio within La Plata County

Population over time

3 figures

Ignacio grew from 669 to 852 between 2000 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
2000669
2010697+28 (+4%)
2020852+155 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Ignacio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 437 acres in total. 45 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined68
Natural45
Debris and open burning43
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony6
Fireworks3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyIGNACIO PEAK
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyHWY 310
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Pinos Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Ute Agency518
2 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute Agency319
2 September 2003Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyBIG TREE
11 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresLos Pinos Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Plata County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ignacio: 8 past producers. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Plata County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ignacio in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2010: 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Thunderstorm WindIgnacio$10,000no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F1)Ignacio$10,000no account filed
July 2002FloodIgnacio$2,000no account filed
April 2010Funnel CloudIgnacio-A cold core funnel cloud was observed by a number of eyewitnesses.
July 2007HailIgnacio-no account filed
July 2006Heavy RainIgnacio-no account filed
September 2005Heavy RainIgnacio-no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Plata 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
Oxford5.7 miles20
Gem Village7.2 miles20
La Boca7.4 miles19
Tiffany7.6 miles19
Bayfield7.9 miles20
Florida9.4 miles20
Allison9.9 miles23
Falfa10.8 miles20

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 IgnacioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2276683The 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 184487. 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.