BlockMosca, Colorado
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mosca-Hooper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81146. The Survey maps it on the Hooper East quadrangle. It stands 7,559 feet above sea level.
On record in Mosca
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 4 records
Trujillo HomesteadNational Historic Landmark · listed 2004
Medano Ranch Headquarterslisted 2004
Superintendent's Residence, Great Sand Dunes National Monumentlisted 1989
Zapata Ranch Headquarterslisted 1993
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Hooper East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Blanca Peak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
23 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Mosca between 1992 and 2013, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
| 16 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Denver County | not named |
| 28 July 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
| 24 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
| 14 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
| 6 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mosca-Hooper Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 4 June 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
| 28 June 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Dolores County Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mosca: 1 occurrence. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mosca in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 4 tornado, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Mosca | $8,000 | A brief tornado destroyed a mobile home in a rural area. |
| May 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Mosca | - | A short-lived tornado occurred south of the Great Sand Dunes National Park. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Mosca | - | A landspout occurred over a field. |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Mosca | - | A series of funnel clouds with a weak thundershower moved across northern Alamosa county near Mosca. The funnel clouds touched down briefly at least twice, causing no known damage. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Mosca | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Mosca | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mosca | - | 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.
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 Mosca | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1948886 | 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 196391. 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.