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Kutch, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Simla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80832. The Survey maps it on the Kutch quadrangle.

Kutch within Elbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kutch between 1992 and 2011, burning about 151 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
19 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersRAMAH
21 October 1992Recreation and ceremony150 acresEl Paso Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Storms near this place

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kutch in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 17 hail, 8 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2010Flash FloodKutch$10,000Thunderstorms producing very heavy rain caused flash flooding near Kutch. Several county roads were washed out by the floodwaters.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindKutch-Intense thunderstorm winds damaged several roofs.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Kutch-An anticyclonic tornado touched down in open country. No damage was observed.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Kutch-A tornado touched down in open country. No damage was observed.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Kutch-The last in a series of well defined tornadoes touched down in open country. No damage was observed.
July 2009Tornado (EF0)Kutch-A tornado touched down but did no damage.
August 2009Tornado (EF0)Kutch-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
June 2006Tornado (F0)Kutch-A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
August 2024HailKutch-no account filed
August 2023HailKutch-no account filed
June 2017HailKutch-no account filed
August 2017HailKutch-no account filed
June 2011HailKutch-no account filed
June 2011HailKutch-no account filed
August 2009HailKutch-no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindKutch-no account filed
August 2009HailKutch-no account filed
August 2008HailKutch-no account filed
May 2007HailKutch-no account filed
June 2004HailKutch-no account filed
June 2004HailKutch-no account filed
June 2003HailKutch-no account filed
June 2001HailKutch-no account filed
May 2001HailKutch-no account filed
July 1998HailKutch-no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F0)Kutch-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Kutch-no account filed
June 1997HailKutch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elbert 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
Beck Sand Draw Crossing12.6 miles12
Matheson18.9 miles15
Simla19.6 miles14
Cedar Point30.0 miles15
Fondis32.9 miles11
Agate38.2 miles17
Bijou39.4 miles14
Elbert41.3 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 195162. 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.

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.