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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.

Mancos within Montezuma County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mancos 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,336
20201,196-140 (-10%)

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

75 since 1993

Regional 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
Natural58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning2

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 September 1995Natural2.0 acresSouthwest District, MontroseSUMMIT
3 September 1995Natural5.0 acresMontezuma Countynot named
15 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseWEBER 2
12 September 1993Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseFLINT ROCK
8 August 1993Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseMEMEFEE
22 August 2003Naturalunder an acreUte Mountain Ute AgencyWEBERSLOPE
21 August 2018Naturalunder an acreTres Rios Field OfficeMUD FORK
21 August 2007Natural10 acresTres Rios Field OfficeJOES CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montezuma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Champion MillGold, SilverPast Producer
East Mancos River PlacersGoldPast Producer
UnkGoldProspect
Vulcan PlacerGoldPast Producer
West Mancos River PlacersGoldPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Montezuma County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMancos4 hurt, $50,000no account filed
August 2024Debris FlowMancos$10,000Heavy 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 1997Thunderstorm WindMancos$5,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMancos$2,000no account filed
August 2010LightningMancos$1,000Electricity was lost to around 234 consumers when a pole was ignited by a lightning strike that occurred on the western edge of Mancos.
August 2016Heavy RainMancos-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 2013Flash FloodMancos-Runoff from heavy rainfall ran over 6 inches deep across the intersection of Colorado Highway 184 and County Road 40.
July 2008Heavy RainMancos-Heavy rainfall of 1.5 inches fell within a 100 minute time period.
July 2007Funnel CloudMancos-no account filed
August 2005Heavy RainMancos-no account filed
August 2005Heavy RainMancos-no account filed
August 2003HailMancos-no account filed
August 2003HailMancos-no account filed
August 2003HailMancos-no account filed
September 2002HailMancos-no account filed
May 2002WildfireMancos-no account filed
June 2001WildfireMancos-no account filed
October 2000HailMancos-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montezuma 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
Weber2.2 miles11
Millwood5.8 miles13
Golconda10.6 miles17
Roundup Junction11.6 miles17
Stapleton12.3 miles10
Dolores14.5 miles10
Cortez15.7 miles11
Swallows Nest (historical)16.0 miles25

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 MancosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q518551The 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.