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La Garita, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Center census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81132. It stands on Wilson Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the La Garita quadrangle.

La Garita within Saguache County

On record in La Garita

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of La Garita between 1993 and 2013, burning about 6 acres in total. 3 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 ceremony6
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
23 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSaguache Countynot named
12 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSaguache Countynot named
31 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Luis Valley Field OfficePENITENTE
22 July 2011Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestSIDEWINDER
1 July 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSaguache Countynot named
9 June 1996Natural3.0 acresRio Grande National ForestSPEARMAN
28 April 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSaguache Countynot named
18 April 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSaguache Countynot named

Every fire recorded in Saguache County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of La Garita: 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Gold. 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
Crystal Hill MineGoldPlant
Unnamed ProspectSilver, Lead, Zinc, GoldOccurrence1910
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Saguache County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Garita in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 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
July 2009HailLa Garita-no account filed
September 1998HailLa Garita-no account filed
September 1998HailLa Garita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saguache 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
Center9.5 miles17
Saguache17.9 miles11
Moffat20.9 miles10
Spook City27.0 miles12
Bonita27.1 miles12
Mirage (historical)27.1 miles12
Parkville27.8 miles12
Mineral Hot Springs28.3 miles13

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 La GaritaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25199056The 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 190257. 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.