La Valley, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the San Luis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81152. The Survey maps it on the La Valley quadrangle.

La Valley within Costilla County

On record in La Valley

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Iglesia de San Francisco de Assisilisted 2012 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS La Valley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Alamosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of La Valley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
21 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
7 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
5 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
30 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
30 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
24 March 2020	Debris and open burning	67 acres	Costilla County Fire Protection District	N/A
6 January 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named
28 January 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Costilla County Fire Protection District	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Costilla 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
Los Fuertes	2.8 miles	12
San Pablo	4.2 miles	12
Chama	4.4 miles	12
San Pedro	4.9 miles	12
San Luis	7.9 miles	12
Viejo San Acacio	11.0 miles	11
Garcia	12.1 miles	11
Mesita	13.5 miles	11

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 Valley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q105274293	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 193127. 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.