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Lobatos, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Antonito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81120. The Survey maps it on the Lobatos quadrangle.

Lobatos within Conejos County

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.

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lobatos in 1994, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
23 March 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
29 December 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
23 December 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
20 December 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
25 January 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
25 January 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
19 January 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreConejos County Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conejos County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lobatos: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Perlite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Antonito MillPerliteProducer
Johns-ManvillePerliteProducer
SilbricoPerliteProducer

Every working recorded in Conejos 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
La Isla2.1 miles11
Antonito3.2 miles18
Espinosa3.5 miles11
Conejos3.8 miles18
Guadalupe4.2 miles18
Los Cerritos5.2 miles11
San Antonio5.8 miles18
Paisaje6.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 204790. 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.