Krauss, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Keenesburg-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80643. The Survey maps it on the Prospect Valley quadrangle.

Krauss within Weld County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1950 USGS Prospect Valley quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Prospect Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

105 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Krauss between 2011 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	91
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
4 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
30 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
29 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
22 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	KEENESBURG
14 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	N/A
6 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Johnson	1.3 miles	15
Prospect Valley	2.7 miles	15
Tampa	3.0 miles	13
Keenesburg	4.1 miles	20
Sloan	4.5 miles	15
South Roggen	5.5 miles	12
Roggen	5.6 miles	12
Roy	6.5 miles	20

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.

Wikidata item Q122569999

The 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 180896. 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.