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Kline, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Durango Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81326. The Survey maps it on the Kline quadrangle. It stands 6,943 feet above sea level.

Kline within La Plata County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

123 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Kline between 1993 and 2020, burning about 330 acres in total. 72 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
Natural72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2

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 2019Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyCHERRY CREEK
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Lewis-Mesa Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyFIVEPOINTS
4 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFort Lewis-Mesa Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Lewis-Mesa Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
20 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyHARVEST
19 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Lewis-Mesa Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
15 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFort Lewis-Mesa 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kline: 2 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

Every working recorded in La Plata County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kline in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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
September 2013HailKline-Hail up to the size of hen eggs and strong winds caused considerable damage to residences and property near Marvel.

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
Marvel2.2 miles15
Breen4.0 miles15
Redmesa4.4 miles15
Hesperus10.7 miles18
La Posta12.0 miles20
Mayday14.4 miles18
Bondad14.6 miles19
Carbon Junction14.9 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 KlineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6420995The 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 179281. 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.