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Manassa, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Manassa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81141. The Survey maps it on the Manassa quadrangle. 947 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,690 feet above sea level.

Manassa within Conejos County

Population over time

2 figures

Manassa fell from 991 to 947 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
2010991
2020947-44 (-4%)

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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Manassa between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,250 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
16 August 2013Naturalunder an acreRomeo Fire Department (Northwest Conejos County Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
8 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreRomeo Fire Department (Northwest Conejos County Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
22 June 1994Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresConejos County Officenot named
7 May 1994Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresConejos County Officenot named
5 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresConejos County Officenot named
17 May 1995Smokingunder an acreSaguache Countynot named
8 April 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conejos County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Manassa: 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Conejos County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manassa in 2 storm reports in 2005: 2 tornado. 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
April 2005Tornado (F0)Manassa-A brief tornado caused no known damage.
April 2005Tornado (F0)Manassa-A brief tornado caused no known damage.

Every storm 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
Los Cerritos2.3 miles11
Romeo2.5 miles11
Espinosa3.0 miles11
Bountiful4.3 miles11
La Isla4.8 miles11
Sanford6.1 miles11
Lobatos6.6 miles11
La Jara7.1 miles11

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 ManassaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2306710The 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 192989. 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.