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Prowers, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South Bent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81052. It stands on Graveyard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prowers quadrangle.

Prowers within Bent County

On record in Prowers

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

6 surveys from 17 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

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Prowers between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,135 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony21
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
1 September 1995Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresProwers Countynot named
1 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresProwers Countynot named
8 August 1995Recreation and ceremony10 acresProwers Countynot named
8 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresProwers Countynot named
4 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresProwers Countynot named
30 August 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreProwers Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Prowers: 7 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Bent County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prowers in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 flash flood. 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
July 1997Flash FloodProwers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bent 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
Old Fort Lyons1.0 miles17
Keesee3.8 miles15
Four Corners Crossing3.9 miles17
Able5.6 miles17
McClave5.8 miles15
Big Bend8.3 miles15
Lubers8.9 miles16
Hasty10.3 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122597928The 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 195559. 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.