South Roggen, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Keenesburg-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80652. The Survey maps it on the South Roggen quadrangle.

South Roggen within Weld County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1950 USGS South Roggen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

24 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of South Roggen between 2011 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	15
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	ROGGEN
22 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	ROGGEN
20 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
16 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
31 July 2013	Natural	20 acres	Southeast Weld Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
22 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	ROGGEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Prospect Valley	4.5 miles	15
Roggen	4.8 miles	12
Krauss	5.5 miles	15
Johnson	5.6 miles	15
Tampa	7.0 miles	13
Sloan	8.7 miles	15
Keenesburg	9.6 miles	20
Roy	12.0 miles	20

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 Q122563876

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 180904. 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.