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Jansen, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Trinidad census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81082. It lies near Colorado Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Trinidad West quadrangle. 101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,129 feet above sea level.

Jansen within Las Animas County

Population over time

2 figures

Jansen fell from 112 to 101 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
2010112
2020101-11 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 24 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Jansen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined61
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTrinidad Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
27 September 1992Smokingunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersTRINIDAD
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFishers Peak Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
13 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFishers Peak Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
11 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTrinidad Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Jansen: 5 producers, 4 occurrences, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Leone Sand and GravelStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
ClaypitClayPast Producer
ClaypitClayPast Producer
New Mary MineClayProducer
Santa Fe PitClayProducer
Summit Brick PlantClayProducer

Every working 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
Piedmont (historical)1.5 miles24
Saint Thomas (historical)1.9 miles24
Sopris (historical)2.1 miles24
Trinidad2.2 miles24
Sopris Plaza (historical)2.3 miles24
Starkville3.0 miles23
Engleville3.4 miles18
Viola (historical)3.7 miles24

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 JansenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472922The 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 204812. 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.