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Redvale, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Nucla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81431. It lies near Quinn Draw. The Survey maps it on the Redvale quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,500 feet above sea level.

Redvale within Montrose County

Population over time

2 figures

Redvale fell from 236 to 172 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.

YearPeople Change
2010236
2020172-64 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Redvale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,045 acres in total. 140 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
Natural140
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2

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
7 September 2016Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseMAVRICK
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseBURNS
7 September 1993Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseMANLY
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseGRASS
5 September 1993Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseBROAD
27 September 2002Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseWICKSON DW
24 September 2012Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseROCK HOUSE
21 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseQUINN DRAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montrose County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Redvale: 7 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Radium, Manganese, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Clay PitClayUnknown
JohnstownRadiumPast Producer
KlondykeeManganeseOccurrence
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Montrose County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redvale in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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
September 2013Flash FloodRedvale-Flowing water at least six inches deep was reported over Highway 145 between mile markers 84 and 85.
August 2007Heavy RainRedvale-Heavy rain producing thunderstorms caused minor flooding of county roads along the Montrose County and San Miguel County border.
July 2001HailRedvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montrose 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
Coventry2.5 miles16
Piñon6.4 miles15
Naturita8.6 miles19
Nucla9.5 miles21
Ute9.5 miles16
Mountain View9.7 miles15
East Vancorum10.1 miles19
Vancorum10.2 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.

Wikipedia article on RedvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7306434The 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 204742. 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.