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Red Wing, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Gardner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81040. It lies near Point of Rocks. The Survey maps it on the Red Wing quadrangle. It stands 7,726 feet above sea level.

Red Wing within Huerfano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Red Wing between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
17 September 2009Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field Office560 ROAD
20 July 1993Naturalunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
14 July 2020Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field Office1333
30 June 2007Natural1.0 acresRoyal Gorge Field OfficeDEEP CANYON
15 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
24 February 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
12 December 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHuerfano Countynot named
12 November 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huerfano County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Red Wing: 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Butler ClaimsGold, SilverOccurrenceVein
Mcintire PropertyUranium, Vanadium, CopperProspect
Santa Rosa ClaimUranium, Vanadium, CopperPast ProducerAutunite, Azurite, Malachite

Every working recorded in Huerfano County

Storms near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Wing in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2019Flash FloodRed Wing$5,000Huerfano County Emergency Manager reports Pass Creek Road has been washed out due to flash flooding from the Spring burn scar.
July 2021Heavy RainRed Wing-Heavy rainfall of 1.00 inches, on the Spring Burn scar.
July 2020Flash FloodRed Wing-Road was closed due to 3 feet of rock and debris covering the road.
August 2019Flash FloodRed Wing-Huerfano County EM reported CR 572 has become impassable due to flash flooding and debris flow.
August 2018Flash FloodRed Wing-Thunderstorm development created heavy precipitation over the Pass, South Oak, Yellowstone, and North Abeyta Creeks. The Huerfano County Emergency Manager provided a delayed report of evidence for flash flooding over County Road 572 near Pass Creek.
August 2018Flash FloodRed Wing-Thunderstorm development created heavy precipitation over Pass Creek. The Huerfano County Emergency Manager provided a delayed report of evidence for flash flooding over County Road 572 near Pass Creek.
July 2018Flash FloodRed Wing-A second round of convection over the Spring Burn Scar produced heavy rain over the Pass Creek, South Oak Creek, and Yellowstone Creek just north of Red Wing, Colorado. Huerfano County Emergency Manager delivered delayed reports of flash flooding over the highlighted region.
July 2018Flash FloodRed Wing-As reported by a CoCoRaHS observer, major flooding on pass creek, at mile marker 3. Another description was that there was a 15 acre meadow moving with water, logs, and debris.
August 2004HailRed Wing-no account filed

Every storm 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
Chama1.3 miles18
Malachite2.0 miles18
Gardner7.4 miles15
Bradford10.3 miles19
Muleshoe11.6 miles21
Farisita11.6 miles17
Badito14.6 miles17
Codo17.8 miles21

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 Red WingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888746The 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 192669. 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.