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Schramm, Colorado

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Yuma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80759. The Survey maps it on the Schramm quadrangle.

Schramm within Yuma County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Schramm between 1993 and 2020, burning about 733 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
29 September 2010Smokingunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYuma Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma Rural Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
12 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
5 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
25 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
21 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresYuma Volunteer Fire Department (Yuma Rural Fire Protection District)N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yuma County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Schramm: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yuma County

Storms near this place

34 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schramm in 34 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindSchramm-The mesonet site KCOYUMA15 on WeatherUnderground reported the wind gust.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Site RMR Ranch measured a 76 mph wind gust. The wind gust correlated with an area of decaying showers and storms moving out of Washington county into Yuma county.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Weatherlink site RDM Cattle reported the wind gust.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Weather link site named Yuma Dairy reported the wind gust.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSchramm-A spotter reported estimated wind gusts up to 50 mph that caused blowing dust to occur as a thunderstorm moved over the location. Visibility was reduced to 100 yards.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Observed via Weather Underground station KCOYUMA15.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Over a duration of two minutes, a thunderstorms produced wind gusts of 60 to 64 mph over the RMR Ranch mesonet station.
August 2023Tornado (EFU)Schramm-A multivortex tornado was observed moving between County Roads 34 and 29 across open land. No damage was reported.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Weather Underground mesonet station KCOYUMA15 at the RMR Ranch observed 59 to 65 mph gusts over a span of 11 minutes. The strongest gust occurred at 8:56 pm MDT.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Observed via a mesonet station at the Yuma Dairy.
June 2022Tornado (EFU)Schramm-Report of a tornado being spotted at roughly 6:58 pm MDT, which lasted around 8 minutes. Visible ground circulation beneath a funnel. Estimated precise locations with radar.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Mesonet station EckleyGPCC reported a 75 mph gust.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Mesonet station RDMCATTLE reported a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Reported via Weather Underground, mesonet station KCOYUMA15 recorded a 59 mph wind gust.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSchramm-A member of the public observed an estimated 60 mph wind gust associated with a severe thunderstorm.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Mesonet station at location recorded a thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Mesonet station recorded a heat burst at location (58 mph wind gust and temperature increase to 92 degrees as showers and thunderstorms were decaying).
June 2016HailSchramm-Hail up to the size of quarters was observed by a trained spotter.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Schramm-A brief weak tornado occurred near the town of Heartstrong. The tornado tracked north-northeast near the CR Q and CR 29 intersection, the CR Q and CR 30 intersection, then ended west of CR R. No damage or injuries were reported due to this tornado. Due to tornado being in the rural part of the county no damage was reported.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Spotter estimated 60 mph wind gusts at the intersection of Road R and Road 32.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSchramm-Three-inch diameter live tree limbs were blown down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSchramm-The public estimated peak wind gusts near 70 mph.
August 2008HailSchramm-Time estimated. 50 mph winds also occurred.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSchramm-no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSchramm-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSchramm-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSchramm-no account filed
August 2023HailSchramm-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSchramm-no account filed
August 2019Funnel CloudSchramm-no account filed
May 2016HailSchramm-no account filed
August 2014HailSchramm-no account filed
August 2013HailSchramm-no account filed
August 2009HailSchramm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yuma 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
Eckley6.1 miles8
Yuma6.3 miles9
Heartstrong11.6 miles8
Robb12.4 miles7
Abarr18.9 miles8
Vernon19.3 miles8
Clarkville19.4 miles7
Wray20.5 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122563146The 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 183024. 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.