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Pagosa Junction, Colorado

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Pagosa Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81147. It stands on Cat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pagosa Junction quadrangle.

Pagosa Junction within Archuleta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Pagosa Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 450 acres in total. 157 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
Natural157
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute Agency241
3 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyJUANITA2
29 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyTRAIL CANY
27 September 2012Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyOB JOYFULL
18 September 2017Natural1.3 acresSouthern Ute Agency1449
18 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyJUMPING
15 September 1995Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyTRAIL CYN
14 September 1995Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyPAGOSA JNC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archuleta 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
Gato0.5 miles22
Juanita2.7 miles22
Carracas3.9 miles23
Kearns6.7 miles21
Lonetree9.1 miles21
Trujillo9.1 miles21
Altura10.0 miles21
Stollsteimer10.9 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 Pagosa JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122546778The 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 184560. 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.