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Salida, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Salida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81201. It lies near Tenderfoot Hill. The Survey maps it on the Salida East quadrangle. 5,666 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,083 feet above sea level.

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Salida within Chaffee County

On record in Salida

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 12 of 18 shown

Every listing in Chaffee County

Population over time

2 figures

Salida grew from 5,236 to 5,666 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
20105,236
20205,666+430 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

113 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Salida between 1997 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 15 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/undetermined75
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeDEAD HORSE
23 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestUTE PILE
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalida Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
10 September 2011Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLONGS GULCH
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Salida: 30 past producers, 23 occurrences, 7 producers, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Tungsten, Copper, Manganese. 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
Bonus Extension GroupBeryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Mica, FeldsparProducer1955
Cleora DistrictCopper, Tungsten, GoldPast Producer1870
Grand View MineCopper, Tungsten, GoldPast Producer1890, 1905
MarvelMicaOccurrenceMica
Polly No 4Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Poncha SpringsGeothermalUnknown
R D H MillLead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Salt CreekGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Sedalia MineZinc, Copper, Gold, Silver, LeadPast Producer1878, 1883, 1923
UnknownMarble, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Chaffee County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salida in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 hail, 1 debris flow. 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 2003LightningSalida$50,000no account filed
August 2022Debris FlowSalida-A boulder the size of an engine was reported to have fallen into the road of Highway 285.
July 2021Flash FloodSalida-County roads 110 and 111 were washed out.
August 2021Flash FloodSalida-Emergency management reported county roads 107 and 107A were flooded.
July 2020Flash FloodSalida-County Highway 101 is washed out near junction of Highway 50.
July 2007Flash FloodSalida-Heavy rain caused flooding of several county roads around Salida, including County Roads 107, 108, 111, and 291.
July 2013HailSalida-no account filed
July 2006HailSalida-no account filed
July 2003LightningSalida-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chaffee 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
Smeltertown1.2 miles19
Cleora2.1 miles17
Belleview3.1 miles19
Poncha Springs4.4 miles19
Browns Canon6.2 miles19
Turret7.3 miles15
Maysville10.1 miles17
Shirley (historical)10.2 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 SalidaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q988276The 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 204758. 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.