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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.

San Luis within Costilla County

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

Population over time

2 figures

San 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.

YearPeople Change
2010629
2020598-31 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

9 since 1994

Regional 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
21 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
11 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
5 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
22 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
24 March 2020Debris and open burning67 acresCostilla County Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 January 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCostilla County Fire Protection Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Costilla County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996HailSan Luis$450,000no account filed
August 2009Flash FloodSan Luis$30,000The 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 2008HailSan Luis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Costilla 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
San Pedro3.1 miles12
Chama3.6 miles12
San Pablo3.8 miles12
Viejo San Acacio4.5 miles11
Los Fuertes5.1 miles12
San Acacio7.5 miles11
La Valley7.9 miles11
Mesita11.8 miles11

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 LuisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1990776The 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.