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Pagosa Springs, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Pagosa Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81147. It stands on McCabe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pagosa Springs quadrangle. 1,571 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,126 feet above sea level.

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Pagosa Springs within Archuleta County

Population over time

2 figures

Pagosa Springs fell from 1,727 to 1,571 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
20101,727
20201,571-156 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

211 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Pagosa Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 56 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined129
Natural56
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3

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 2017Naturalunder an acreArchuleta County OfficeCIMORONA FIRE
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePagosa Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePagosa Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2004Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestCHOCOLATE
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePagosa Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2012Natural5.0 acresSan Juan National ForestROBINSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archuleta County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Pagosa Springs: 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Gold, Geothermal. 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
Copper QueenGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Oak Grove Ranch PropertyCalciumOccurrenceVein
Seavy RanchFeldsparPast Producer
Sunetha Anticline ClaimsUranium, VanadiumProspect
Sunetha Claim GroupUranium, VanadiumOccurrenceCarnotite
Treasure-ComstockGold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Pagosa SpringsGeothermalProducer
Pagosa SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Sunetha AnticlineUraniumOccurrenceCarnotite
Paul Day PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Archuleta County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pagosa Springs in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindPagosa Springs$5,000Thunderstorm winds toppled over a tractor semi-trailer and blew off half of a hotel roof in Pagosa Springs (36 miles east of Durango).
August 1993Thunderstorm WindPagosa Springs-A spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust to 58 mph (50 knots) just east of Pagosa Springs.

Every storm 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
Treasure3.8 miles27
Nutria6.7 miles21
Dyke10.3 miles21
Lonetree11.1 miles21
Altura11.3 miles21
Trujillo11.8 miles21
Kearns12.4 miles21
Piedra17.8 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 SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q994977The 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 184338. 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.