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.
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
Two Buttes Gymnasiumlisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresTwo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 43 | |
| 2020 | 34 | -9 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Albany quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Albany quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Two Buttes quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Two Buttes Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1993Regional 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 use | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 595 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | MOORE DRAW |
| 18 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Springfield Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 8 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Walsh Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 6 June 2018 | Natural | 100 acres | Walsh Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 12 March 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Baca County Office | not named |
| 13 January 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 30 acres | Prowers County | not named |
Storms near this place
52 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | $5,000 | Eight power poles were blown down near the intersection of County Roads 39 and KK. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Two Buttes | $5,000 | A tornado downed large tree limbs and destroyed some weak outbuildings at a ranch. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | Strong outflow winds of 80mph were recorded in Two Buttes. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Two Buttes | - | Law enforcement confirmed tornado touched the ground. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Two Buttes | - | Trained spotter reports tornado touched down northeast of Two Buttes. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | Trained spotter reported 1 inch hail fell 12 miles NE of Two Buttes, in Prowers County. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | Trained spotter reported large hail near Two Buttes. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | Trained spotter reported golf ball size hail. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | High winds brought down numerous large tree branches. |
| July 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Two Buttes | - | The tornado occurred over open country and caused no known damage. |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Two Buttes | - | A brief funnel cloud occurred over the northern part of the county near Two Buttes. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Buttes | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycan | 11.1 miles | 14 | |
| Vilas | 13.2 miles | 14 | |
| Walsh | 13.6 miles | 13 | |
| Buckeye Crossroads | 14.3 miles | 14 | |
| Springfield | 15.6 miles | 13 | |
| Bartlett | 16.1 miles | 13 | |
| Stonington | 21.6 miles | 13 | |
| Brookfield (historical) | 23.7 miles | 14 |
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 Buttes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1874145 | The 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.






