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Stonewall, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Weston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81091. It lies near Romain Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Stonewall quadrangle.

Stonewall within Las Animas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Stonewall between 1992 and 2018, burning about 73 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 10 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
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1

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
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 September 2014Natural1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 August 2015Natural1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 July 2013Naturalunder an acreStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
15 July 2014Natural1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
15 July 2014Naturalunder an acreStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
13 July 2017Natural1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Las Animas 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 Stonewall: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonewall in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 7 hail, 2 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
July 2010Flash FloodStonewall$20,000Several roads north of Highway 12 sustained severe erosion due to deep, fast-flowing water.
August 2010HailStonewall$10,000no account filed
August 2004Flash FloodStonewall-Very heavy rain from nearly stationary thunderstorms produced flash flooding south of Highway 12 in rugged, unpopulated terrain.
June 2016HailStonewall-no account filed
July 2010HailStonewall-no account filed
August 2009HailStonewall-no account filed
July 1998HailStonewall-no account filed
June 1997HailStonewall-no account filed
June 1996HailStonewall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Las Animas 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
Stonewall Gap1.1 miles11
Parras Plaza3.7 miles21
Vigil4.1 miles21
Monument Park4.1 miles11
Zamara5.1 miles21
Torres6.1 miles12
Tercio7.0 miles21
Weston9.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 204789. 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.