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McClave, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the McClave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81057. The Survey maps it on the McClave quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,868 feet above sea level.

McClave within Bent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of McClave between 1994 and 2020, burning about 675 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined57
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
19 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
16 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
15 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
31 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
17 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of McClave: 10 unknowns, 10 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Bent County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McClave in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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
May 1995Tornado (F0)McClave-A tornado briefly touchdown just south of McClave, no damage.

Every storm recorded in Bent 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
Keesee3.8 miles15
Lubers4.0 miles16
Old Fort Lyons5.0 miles17
Able5.4 miles17
Prowers5.8 miles17
Hasty5.9 miles19
Big Bend6.9 miles15
Four Corners Crossing8.6 miles17

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 McClaveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6800303The 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 195421. 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.