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Torres, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Monte Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81144. It lies near Nicomodes Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Monte Vista quadrangle.

Torres within Rio Grande County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Torres between 1993 and 2016, burning about 24 acres in total. None 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/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony2

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
12 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
11 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDEL NORTE
28 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDEL NORTE
24 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
23 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
14 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named
13 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersDEL NORTE
11 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCSFS-Alamosa Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rio Grande County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Torres: 6 unknowns, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
UnknownPumiceOccurrence
Mathias North Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Rio Grande 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
Maxeyville3.0 miles18
Sevenmile Plaza3.4 miles17
Monte Vista3.5 miles18
Sugar Junction5.6 miles16
Vastine5.7 miles17
Homelake6.1 miles16
Dunul6.6 miles17
Zinzer6.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 190394. 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.