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Stoner, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dolores census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81323. It stands on Pipe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stoner quadrangle.

Stoner within Montezuma County

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

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Stoner between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,558 acres in total. 41 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
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2019Natural1.0 acresSan Juan National ForestNORTH HAYCAMP
5 September 2017Natural1,438 acresSan Juan National ForestDRAW
10 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestMUSKET
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestKANSAS
7 August 2001Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestMAVREESO
7 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestPIPELINE
5 August 2014Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestSAWMILL 2
30 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestSTONER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montezuma County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stoner in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2002HailStoner$25,000no account filed
May 2021HailStoner-A severe thunderstorm produced large hail measured to be the size of quarters southeast of Stoner.
September 2003Heavy RainStoner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montezuma 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
Stapleton7.7 miles10
Roundup Junction11.1 miles17
Millwood11.6 miles13
Dolores12.6 miles10
Golconda12.7 miles17
Mancos16.9 miles11
Lebanon17.0 miles10
Weber19.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 176933. 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.