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Kelim, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Loveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80534. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle.

Kelim within Larimer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

165 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Kelim between 2011 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined141
Smoking8
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWindsor-Severance Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLOVELAND
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWINDSOR
25 September 2018Naturalunder an acreLoveland Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBig Thompson Canyon Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBig Thompson Canyon Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLoveland Fire & Rescue DepartmentUNKNOWN
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWindsor-Severance Fire Protection DistrictN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kelim: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelim in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 3 hail. 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
June 2020HailKelim-no account filed
May 2017HailKelim-no account filed
June 2015HailKelim-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Browns Corner5.7 miles28
Loveland6.6 miles28
Kings Corner6.8 miles28
Redmond6.9 miles28
Kerns7.0 miles18
Campion7.8 miles32
Timnath8.6 miles18
Trilby Corner9.1 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 180573. 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.