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Two Buttes, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Walsh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81084. The Survey maps it on the Two Buttes quadrangle. 34 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,108 feet above sea level.

Two Buttes within Baca County

On record in Two Buttes

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

Population over time

2 figures

Two Buttes fell from 43 to 34 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201043
202034-9 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Two Buttes between 1993 and 2018, burning about 726 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use595 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestMOORE DRAW
18 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSpringfield Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
8 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWalsh Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 June 2018Natural100 acresWalsh Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
12 March 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBaca County Officenot named
13 January 1995Recreation and ceremony30 acresProwers Countynot named

Every fire recorded in Baca County

Storms near this place

52 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Two Buttes in 52 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 40 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindTwo Buttes$5,000Eight power poles were blown down near the intersection of County Roads 39 and KK.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Two Buttes$5,000A tornado downed large tree limbs and destroyed some weak outbuildings at a ranch.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTwo Buttes-Strong outflow winds of 80mph were recorded in Two Buttes.
June 2022Tornado (EFU)Two Buttes-Law enforcement confirmed tornado touched the ground.
June 2022Tornado (EFU)Two Buttes-Trained spotter reports tornado touched down northeast of Two Buttes.
May 2019HailTwo Buttes-Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail fell 12 miles NE of Two Buttes, in Prowers County.
June 2019HailTwo Buttes-Trained spotter reported large hail near Two Buttes.
June 2019HailTwo Buttes-Trained spotter reported golf ball size hail.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTwo Buttes-High winds brought down numerous large tree branches.
July 2013Tornado (EF0)Two Buttes-The tornado occurred over open country and caused no known damage.
July 1997Funnel CloudTwo Buttes-A brief funnel cloud occurred over the northern part of the county near Two Buttes.
July 2023HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 2022HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 2022HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 2017HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 2015HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
May 2015HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
April 2012HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
April 2012HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
April 2012HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 2009HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 2008HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
April 2008HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 2008HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
August 2008HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindTwo Buttes-no account filed
April 2005HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 2005HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
May 2005HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 2005HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
April 2004HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 2004HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 2004HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 2000Funnel CloudTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 2000HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 1999HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
May 1999HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
May 1999HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 1998HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 1998HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 1998HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 1997HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
August 1997HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 1997HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
June 1997HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 1995HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 1995HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 1995HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
July 1995HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
August 1995HailTwo Buttes-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindTwo Buttes-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
Lycan11.1 miles14
Vilas13.2 miles14
Walsh13.6 miles13
Buckeye Crossroads14.3 miles14
Springfield15.6 miles13
Bartlett16.1 miles13
Stonington21.6 miles13
Brookfield (historical)23.7 miles14

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 Two ButtesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1874145The 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 196063. 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.