Kreybill, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Las Animas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81054. It stands on Gageby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kreybill quadrangle.

Kreybill within Bent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1891 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Kreybill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Las Animas quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Kreybill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 562 acres in total. None 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	15
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1

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
3 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	MCCLAVE
18 June 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Las Animas-Bent County Fire Department	UNKNOWN
17 June 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Las Animas-Bent County Fire Department	UNKNOWN
17 June 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Las Animas-Bent County Fire Department	UNKNOWN
16 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Bent County Office	HWY 50 CNTY RD 19/20
30 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
21 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
4 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	San Miguel County	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bent County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Kreybill: 4 unknowns, 3 occurrences. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Bent 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
Fort Lyon	3.1 miles	18
Hilton	3.7 miles	16
Keller	4.3 miles	18
Melina	4.7 miles	18
Las Animas Junction	5.3 miles	18
Las Animas	7.3 miles	18
Hasty	7.6 miles	19
Boggsville	7.8 miles	18

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 Q122572013

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 195537. 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.