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San Isabel, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Westcliffe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81069. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Isabel quadrangle.

San Isabel within Custer County

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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of San Isabel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 30 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
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeulah Valley Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestAMETHYST
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBeulah Valley Volunteer Fire DepartmentN/A
22 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLOG
21 September 2019Natural2.0 acresFront Range District OfficeDAVENPORT
10 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestWALK UP
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Canon City Districtnot named
4 August 2011Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCLIFF CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of San Isabel: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Marion MineSilver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast ProducerSphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
Victory ClaimsManganeseOccurrence1947
Wet Mountains DistrictZinc, Copper, Lead, SilverPast ProducerSphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
San Isabel DepositVermiculitePast Producer
UnknownVermiculiteOccurrenceVermiculite

Every working recorded in Custer County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Isabel in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 6 hail, 5 heavy rain, 2 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
July 2009Flash FloodSan Isabel$4,000Six inches of water was observed flowing over roadways...with several gravel roads washed out and impassable.
July 2021Heavy RainSan Isabel-Heavy rainfall of 1.61 inches.
July 2021Heavy RainSan Isabel-Heavy rainfall of 1.44 inches.
August 2021Heavy RainSan Isabel-Heavy rainfall of 2.48 inches.
July 2020Heavy RainSan Isabel-Heavy rainfall of 1.14 inches occurred.
July 2018Heavy RainSan Isabel-A trained spotter reported 1.3 inches of rain.
August 2008HailSan Isabel-no account filed
June 2007HailSan Isabel-no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodSan Isabel-no account filed
May 2006HailSan Isabel-no account filed
August 2004HailSan Isabel-no account filed
October 2004HailSan Isabel-no account filed
May 1997HailSan Isabel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Custer 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
Fairview6.0 miles23
McKenzie Junction14.2 miles24
Cold Spring15.0 miles24
Greenwood15.2 miles23
Rosita16.7 miles24
Wetmore17.4 miles23
Querida17.7 miles26
Silver Cliff23.1 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 192524. 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.