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Lonetree, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Pagosa Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81147. It lies in Lonetree Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Lonetree Canyon quadrangle.

Lonetree within Archuleta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Lonetree between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,233 acres in total. 87 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
Natural87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2009Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestBEAR
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyANCIENT
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestWASHINGTON
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestLA JUANA
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyDELUGE
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePagosa Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestGALLEGOS
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePagosa Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archuleta 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 Lonetree: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Seavy Ranch PropertyCalciumOccurrence1938, 1941

Every working recorded in Archuleta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lonetree in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 lightning. 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 2017LightningLonetree$20,000Lightning struck the Oak Brush communications site and damaged law enforcement communications equipment.

Every storm recorded in Archuleta 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
Altura1.4 miles21
Kearns2.6 miles21
Dyke4.2 miles21
Nutria5.0 miles21
Trujillo8.1 miles21
Gato8.6 miles22
Pagosa Junction9.1 miles22
Piedra9.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 184546. 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.