Mancos, Colorado
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Mancos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81328. The Survey maps it on the Mancos quadrangle. 1,196 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,028 feet above sea level.
On record in Mancos
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 5 records
Bauer Bank Blocklisted 2003
Mancos High Schoollisted 1991
Mancos Opera Houselisted 1988
Wrightsman Houselisted 1997- Haynie Sitelisted 2017
Population over time
2 figuresMancos fell from 1,336 to 1,196 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,336 | |
| 2020 | 1,196 | -140 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mancos quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
75 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Mancos between 1993 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 58 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 58 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Southwest District, Montrose | SUMMIT |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Montezuma County | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | WEBER 2 |
| 12 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | FLINT ROCK |
| 8 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | MEMEFEE |
| 22 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Ute Mountain Ute Agency | WEBERSLOPE |
| 21 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | MUD FORK |
| 21 August 2007 | Natural | 10 acres | Tres Rios Field Office | JOES CANYON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Mancos: 5 occurrences, 4 prospects, 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champion Mill | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| East Mancos River Placers | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Vulcan Placer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| West Mancos River Placers | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect |
Storms near this place
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mancos in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 heavy rain, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 wildfire. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mancos | 4 hurt, $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Debris Flow | Mancos | $10,000 | Heavy rainfall to the northeast of Mesa Verde National Park fell on the afternoon of August 25th, with estimated rainfall rates in excess of 2 inches per hour for around 10 minutes. That puts the rainfall total along County Road 41, in this area, at 0.25-0.35 inches. The debris flow resulted in the closure of the road and damage to the road in at least 2 locations. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mancos | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mancos | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Lightning | Mancos | $1,000 | Electricity was lost to around 234 consumers when a pole was ignited by a lightning strike that occurred on the western edge of Mancos. |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Mancos | - | About 3 miles northwest of Mancos 1.74 inches of rain was measured within a 24-hour period, with 0.80 of that amount having fallen within 40 minutes. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Mancos | - | Runoff from heavy rainfall ran over 6 inches deep across the intersection of Colorado Highway 184 and County Road 40. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Mancos | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.5 inches fell within a 100 minute time period. |
| July 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Mancos | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Heavy Rain | Mancos | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Heavy Rain | Mancos | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Mancos | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Mancos | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Mancos | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Mancos | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Wildfire | Mancos | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Wildfire | Mancos | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Mancos | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weber | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Millwood | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Golconda | 10.6 miles | 17 | |
| Roundup Junction | 11.6 miles | 17 | |
| Stapleton | 12.3 miles | 10 | |
| Dolores | 14.5 miles | 10 | |
| Cortez | 15.7 miles | 11 | |
| Swallows Nest (historical) | 16.0 miles | 25 |
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 Mancos | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q518551 | 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 179088. 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.






