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Reilly Canyon, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 81024. It lies near Scott Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Delagua quadrangle.

Reilly Canyon within Las Animas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Reilly Canyon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined19
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeROAD CYN
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 August 1995Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
8 August 1995Natural2.0 acresLas Animas Countynot named
30 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersTRINIDAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas 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
Boncarbo2.7 miles21
Vallorso4.0 miles21
Gulnare4.9 miles22
Delagua (historical)6.4 miles21
Forbes (historical)7.7 miles19
Primero (historical)7.9 miles21
Ludlow8.6 miles19
Cokedale8.9 miles24

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 Q122545724The 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 194531. 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.