BlockSlater, Colorado
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Craig census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81625. It lies near Serviceberry Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Bakers Peak quadrangle. It stands 7,753 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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 Craig quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Bakers Peak quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1979 USGS Craig quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
22 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Slater between 1994 and 2019, burning about 746 acres in total. 19 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | FANROCK |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Carbon County | SLATER |
| 6 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | MICRO |
| 28 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | SERVICEBERRY |
| 23 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | SALIX |
| 22 August 2007 | Natural | 47 acres | Northwest District, Craig | WILLOW CREEK 2 |
| 22 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | TIMBER |
| 8 July 2018 | Natural | 263 acres | Northwest District, Craig | SKUNK CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slater in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Flood | Slater | - | County Road 2 next to the USGS's Slater Fork gage south of the Wyoming/Colorado border had one lane closed due to flooding along Slater Creek. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craig | 30.0 miles | 16 | |
| Craig South Highlands | 32.1 miles | 17 | |
| Lay | 35.5 miles | 13 | |
| Hamilton | 40.5 miles | 15 | |
| Juniper Hot Springs | 41.0 miles | 17 | |
| Maybell | 43.1 miles | 14 | |
| Powder Wash | 43.1 miles | 11 | |
| Iles Grove | 43.4 miles | 17 |
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 Slater | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3475772 | 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 1952147. 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.