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Molina, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Collbran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81646. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Molina quadrangle. It stands 7,306 feet above sea level.

Molina within Mesa County

On record in Molina

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Molina between 1992 and 2020, burning about 412 acres in total. 41 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
Natural41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionATWELL GULCH
30 September 2009Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionTSUNAMI
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionBEEHIVE
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
16 September 2009Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionLATER GJ MEX 550
12 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forestsnot named
7 August 2018Natural20 acresNorthwest District, Grand JunctionBULL BASIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Molina: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Quartz, Feldspar, Mica, Tin. 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
Molina DepositQuartz, Feldspar, Mica, TinUnknown

Every working recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Molina in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 debris flow. 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
August 1999HailMolina$30,000no account filed
July 2017Debris FlowMolina-Heavy rainfall caused a large amount of mud and rocks to flow across Highway 330 between mile markers 7 and 8.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMolina-no account filed
July 1998Funnel CloudMolina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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
Mesa4.5 miles16
Plateau City5.3 miles13
John Held Corner5.4 miles16
Collbran6.3 miles13
Mesa Lakes9.8 miles16
Mesa Lakes Resort9.8 miles16
Akin11.7 miles15
De Beque13.0 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 MolinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6896174The 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 204661. 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.