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Lewis, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cortez census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81327. It lies near Brumley Draw. The Survey maps it on the Arriola quadrangle. 257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,719 feet above sea level.

Lewis within Montezuma County

Population over time

2 figures

Lewis fell from 302 to 257 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.

YearPeople Change
2010302
2020257-45 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Lewis between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,331 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 1 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
Natural34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2018Naturalunder an acreTres Rios Field OfficeDAWSON RIM
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreLewis-Arriola Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestBEAN III
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLewis-Arriola Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersYELLOW JACKET
30 August 2015Naturalunder an acreLewis-Arriola Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
21 August 2016Naturalunder an acreLewis-Arriola Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
16 August 2016Naturalunder an acreCortez Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montezuma County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewis in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 3 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2005Flash FloodLewis$250,000no account filed
September 2002Flash FloodLewis$4,000no account filed
March 2023FloodLewis-Rapid snowmelt and rain caused flooding and the closure of Colorado Highway 184 near its intersection with U.S. Highway 491. Heavy rain and rapid snowmelt overwhelmed a culvert which failed, contributing to the backup of the culvert and subsequent flooding.
September 2013Flash FloodLewis-A flash flood came down a drainage through a residence with water topping bridges on the property.

Every storm recorded in Montezuma 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
Yellow Jacket3.5 miles12
Arriola4.1 miles12
Lebanon5.1 miles10
Pleasant View8.0 miles11
Dolores8.9 miles10
Cortez11.3 miles11
Stapleton14.0 miles10
Millwood18.6 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 LewisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2887452The 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 202602. 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.

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.