San Luis, Colorado
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the San Luis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81152. It stands on Rito Seco. The Survey maps it on the San Luis quadrangle. 598 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,979 feet above sea level.
On record in San Luis
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 5 records
Plaza de San Luis de la Culebralisted 1978
Rito Seco Creek Culvertlisted 2002
A.A. Salazar Houselisted 1998
San Luis Bridgelisted 1985- "Sierras y Colores" Murallisted 2023
Population over time
2 figuresSan Luis fell from 629 to 598 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 629 | |
| 2020 | 598 | -31 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS San Luis quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1983 USGS Alamosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Trinidad quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of San Luis between 1994 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 11 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 5 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 26 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 25 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 22 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 24 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 67 acres | Costilla County Fire Protection District | N/A |
| 6 January 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Costilla County Fire Protection District | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Luis in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2009: 2 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Hail | San Luis | $450,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | San Luis | $30,000 | The San Luis Peoples Ditch had two breaches, flooding two properties. Some house experience flooding of basements and crawl spaces. Several county roads were washed out. |
| May 2008 | Hail | San Luis | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Pedro | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Chama | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| San Pablo | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Viejo San Acacio | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Los Fuertes | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| San Acacio | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| La Valley | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Mesita | 11.8 miles | 11 |
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 San Luis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1990776 | The 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 204787. 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.
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.






