Red Lion, Colorado
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Crook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80726. The Survey maps it on the Julesburg Reservoir quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Julesburg Reservoir quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Julesburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Red Lion between 2011 and 2018, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 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 | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Crook Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 21 July 2017 | Natural | 10 acres | Crook Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 27 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Crook Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 10 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sedgwick Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 29 December 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | CROOK |
| 10 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Crook Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Red Lion: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 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.
Storms near this place
7 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Lion in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2013: 6 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Lion | - | Intense wind and large hail snapped tree branches and cracked windows. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Red Lion | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Red Lion | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Red Lion | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Red Lion | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Red Lion | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Red Lion | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 182682. 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.



