La Junta Gardens, Colorado
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Cheraw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81050. It stands on Anderson Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the La Junta quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,065 feet above sea level.
On record in La Junta Gardens
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 within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Daniel Sciumbato Grocery Storelisted 1984 · 0.9 miles away
Lincoln Schoollisted 1978 · 1.0 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresLa Junta Gardens fell from 153 to 123 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 153 | |
| 2020 | 123 | -30 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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 Timpas quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Timpas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1968 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
217 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of La Junta Gardens between 2003 and 2019, burning about 199 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 176 |
| Smoking | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 17 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 17 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 13 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 1 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | LA JUNTA |
| 9 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 8 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | La Junta Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 31 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of La Junta Gardens: 17 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabaster Processing Plant | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| La Junta Shale | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| La Junta Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Junta | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| North La Junta | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| La Junta Village | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Ormega | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Swink | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Casa | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Hays | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Shelton | 6.4 miles | 16 |
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 Junta Gardens | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5963973 | 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 203845. 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.







