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Pryor, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Walsenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81089. It lies in Pryor Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Pryor quadrangle. It stands 6,421 feet above sea level.

Pryor within Huerfano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Pryor between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined7
Natural3
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
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 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
27 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
16 July 1994Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
16 July 1994Natural1.0 acresLas Animas Countynot named
26 May 2020Naturalunder an acreHuerfano CountyBLACKHAWK
2 April 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLas Animas Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huerfano County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pryor: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Huerfano 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
Monson0.8 miles17
Rouse1.2 miles22
Walsenburg8.7 miles18
Pictou10.4 miles15
Cuchara Junction11.1 miles16
Maitland12.1 miles15
La Veta15.6 miles18
Alamo16.5 miles15

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 PryorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988069The 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 194389. 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.