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Saguache, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Saguache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81149. It lies near Flagpole Hill. The Survey maps it on the Saguache quadrangle. 539 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,707 feet above sea level.

Saguache within Saguache County

On record in Saguache

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Saguache between 1995 and 2020, burning under an acre 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
25 August 2001Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeCANON
21 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSaguache CountyCO RD 48X
11 March 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSaguache Countynot named

Every fire recorded in Saguache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Saguache: 9 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
UnknownPumicePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Saguache County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saguache in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Flash FloodSaguache$65,000Heavy rainfall flooded Saguache Creek and its tributaries both north and south of highway 114. County roads and a few bridges were washed out. Property adjacent to the creeks was inundated, washing out driveways to ranch houses and destroying some hay fields.
August 2022Flash FloodSaguache-Colorado DOT reports CO 114 closed due to flash flooding from CR 36 to FS road 840.
July 2007Flash FloodSaguache-Flash flooding occurred at Highway 114 and County Road 38EE.
August 2012HailSaguache-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSaguache-no account filed
July 2002HailSaguache-no account filed
June 2000HailSaguache-no account filed
July 2000HailSaguache-no account filed
August 2000HailSaguache-no account filed
August 2000HailSaguache-no account filed
July 1998HailSaguache-no account filed
July 1998HailSaguache-no account filed
July 1996HailSaguache-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saguache 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
Parkville9.9 miles12
Spook City10.3 miles12
Bonita10.7 miles12
Mineral Hot Springs12.8 miles13
Sedgewick (historical)13.2 miles17
Kerper City13.5 miles17
Moffat13.7 miles10
Bonanza14.3 miles17

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 SaguacheAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q615391The 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 190217. 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.