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Stonington, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Walsh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81090. The Survey maps it on the Stonington quadrangle. It stands 3,809 feet above sea level.

Stonington within Baca County

On record in Stonington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Stonington between 1993 and 1995, burning about 244 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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 May 1993Recreation and ceremony140 acresBaca County Officenot named
23 April 1994Natural3.0 acresBaca County Officenot named
11 March 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreBaca County Officenot named
6 February 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreBaca County Officenot named
6 February 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBaca County Officenot named
26 February 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreBaca County Officenot named
12 November 1993Recreation and ceremony100 acresBaca County Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baca County

Storms near this place

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonington in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 27 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 tornado. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindStonington$5,000no account filed
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Stonington$3,000A short-lived tornado struck a windmill in open country of southeast Baca County.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStonington$2,000A pole barn was damaged.
May 2015LightningStonington$1,500Three horses were killed by lightning.
August 2025Flash FloodStonington-Flooding on Hwy 160 near Walsh. Flooding reported at Walsh Health Center.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindStonington-Mesonet station dw6957 at Walsh reported 64mph wind gust.
July 2022Heavy RainStonington-Heavy rainfall of 1.54 inches.
June 2019HailStonington-Report of ping pong ball size hail along Hwy 160 at the Colorado and Kansas state line.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStonington-Near Stonington.
September 2012HailStonington-Hail covered the ground to a depth of 2 inches.
June 2022HailStonington-no account filed
May 2017HailStonington-no account filed
May 2017HailStonington-no account filed
June 2017HailStonington-no account filed
June 2017HailStonington-no account filed
June 2017HailStonington-no account filed
June 2015HailStonington-no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStonington-no account filed
July 2015HailStonington-no account filed
May 2015HailStonington-no account filed
July 2015HailStonington-no account filed
July 2015HailStonington-no account filed
June 2013HailStonington-no account filed
July 2011HailStonington-no account filed
May 2010Funnel CloudStonington-no account filed
May 2010Funnel CloudStonington-no account filed
May 2010HailStonington-no account filed
May 2010Funnel CloudStonington-no account filed
August 2008HailStonington-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStonington-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindStonington-no account filed
June 2006HailStonington-no account filed
June 2004HailStonington-no account filed
May 2004HailStonington-no account filed
June 2004HailStonington-no account filed
April 2001HailStonington-no account filed
July 2001HailStonington-no account filed
July 1999HailStonington-no account filed
June 1997HailStonington-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Stonington-no account filed
July 1996HailStonington-no account filed
June 1996HailStonington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baca 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
Walsh8.0 miles13
Bartlett9.9 miles13
Midway10.0 miles13
Vilas14.8 miles14
Buckeye Crossroads18.5 miles14
Two Buttes21.6 miles14
Lycan22.2 miles14
Springfield24.0 miles13

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 StoningtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107803505The 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 196221. 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.