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Vallorso, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Trinidad census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81082. It lies near Prairie Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Delagua quadrangle.

Vallorso within Las Animas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Vallorso between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 3 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
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 September 2011Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeLEFT FORK
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeROAD CYN
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
19 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 August 1995Natural2.0 acresLas Animas Countynot named
4 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
3 August 2013Natural2.0 acresSpanish Peaks / Boncarbo 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 Vallorso: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working 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
Reilly Canyon4.0 miles21
Delagua (historical)4.1 miles21
Forbes (historical)4.5 miles19
Ludlow4.8 miles19
Boncarbo5.3 miles21
Gulnare6.1 miles22
Aguilar8.3 miles22
Cokedale9.6 miles24

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.

Wikidata item Q122539047The 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 194540. 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.