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Lascar, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Walsenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81069. It stands on Apache Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lascar quadrangle.

Lascar within Huerfano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Lascar between 1995 and 2019, burning about 82 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Natural2
Smoking1

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
6 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWALSENBURG
16 August 2019Natural1.0 acresFront Range District OfficeROCK SPRINGS
11 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWALSENURG
1 August 2008Natural65 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeROCK SPRING
9 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWALSENBURG
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
19 March 1995Smokingunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named

Every fire recorded in Huerfano County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lascar: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
UnknownLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceLimestone

Every working recorded in Huerfano 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
Apache City4.9 miles15
Delcarbon10.3 miles15
Strong11.2 miles15
Cuchara Junction11.4 miles16
Maitland12.5 miles15
Tioga12.9 miles15
Pictou13.3 miles15
Walsenburg14.0 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122593451The 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 194068. 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.