Los Fuertes, Colorado

12 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. It stands on San Francisco Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Luis quadrangle.

Los Fuertes within Costilla County

On record in Los Fuertes

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 1 record

Capilla de San Isidrolisted 2013

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1954 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS San Luis quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1983 USGS Alamosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Los Fuertes 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
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
11 June 2020	Debris and open burning	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
22 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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

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
San Pablo	1.4 miles	12
Chama	1.9 miles	12
San Pedro	2.1 miles	12
La Valley	2.8 miles	11
San Luis	5.1 miles	12
Viejo San Acacio	8.3 miles	11
San Acacio	11.2 miles	11
Mesita	12.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122589240

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 203658. 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.