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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Population over time
2 figuresPagosa 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,727 | |
| 2020 | 1,571 | -156 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1924 USGS Pagosa Springs quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1927 USGS Pagosa Springs quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Pagosa Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Durango quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Durango quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
211 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 129 |
| Natural | 56 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Archuleta County Office | CIMORONA FIRE |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pagosa Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pagosa Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 4 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | San Juan National Forest | CHOCOLATE |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 30 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pagosa Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 30 September 2012 | Natural | 5.0 acres | San Juan National Forest | ROBINSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Queen | Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Oak Grove Ranch Property | Calcium | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Seavy Ranch | Feldspar | Past Producer | ||
| Sunetha Anticline Claims | Uranium, Vanadium | Prospect | ||
| Sunetha Claim Group | Uranium, Vanadium | Occurrence | Carnotite | |
| Treasure-Comstock | Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Pagosa Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Pagosa Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Sunetha Anticline | Uranium | Occurrence | Carnotite | |
| Paul Day Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pagosa Springs | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds toppled over a tractor semi-trailer and blew off half of a hotel roof in Pagosa Springs (36 miles east of Durango). |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pagosa Springs | - | A spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust to 58 mph (50 knots) just east of Pagosa Springs. |
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 Pagosa Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q994977 | 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 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.









