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Villa Grove, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Saguache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81155. It stands on Kerber Creek. The Survey maps it on the Villa Grove quadrangle. It stands 7,982 feet above sea level.

Villa Grove within Saguache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Villa Grove between 1993 and 1996, burning about 5 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
Recreation and ceremony1
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
22 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSaguache Countynot named
21 June 1996Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestJACK
25 March 1993Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresSaguache Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saguache County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Villa Grove: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, Dimension. 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
UnknownStone, DimensionPast ProducerMarble
UnknownLimestone, DimensionOccurrenceMarble
UnknownGold, SilverProspect
Valley View Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Saguache County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villa Grove in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 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 2024Tornado (EFU)Villa Grove-Picture on social media showing a small funnel with ground circulation.
July 2014HailVilla Grove-no account filed
June 2002HailVilla Grove-no account filed
July 2000HailVilla Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saguache 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
Mineral Hot Springs5.6 miles13
Parkville8.2 miles12
Alder9.6 miles16
Kerper City10.5 miles17
Bonanza10.7 miles17
Sedgewick (historical)10.7 miles17
Mirage (historical)11.0 miles12
Spook City13.2 miles12

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 Villa GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7930345The 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 204776. 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.

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.