La Junta, Colorado

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Otero County

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 11 records

• Bent's Old Fort National Historic SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Dr. Frank Finney Houselisted 1984
• Wilson A. Hart Houselisted 1979
• La Junta City Parklisted 2007
• Lincoln Schoollisted 1978
• North La Junta Schoollisted 1992
• Eugene Rourke Houselisted 1983
• San Juan Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1980
• Daniel Sciumbato Grocery Storelisted 1984
• U.S. Post Officelisted 1976
• United Methodist Church of La Juntalisted 2025

La Junta fell from 7,568 to 7,322 between 2000 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.

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 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of La Junta between 2003 and 2019, burning about 175 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• North La Junta
• La Junta Gardens
• Casa
• Ormega
• La Junta Village
• Hadley

Every fire recorded in Otero County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of La Junta: 18 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 7 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.

Every working recorded in Otero County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Junta in 115 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 49 hail, 30 thunderstorm wind, 15 flash flood, 9 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.

Every storm recorded in Otero County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 204829. 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.