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Vona, Colorado

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stratton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80861. The Survey maps it on the Vona quadrangle. 95 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,514 feet above sea level.

Vona within Kit Carson County

On record in Vona

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

Vona fell from 106 to 95 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
2010106
202095-11 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Vona between 2011 and 2016, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined3

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStratton Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
29 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersVONA
5 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersVONA

Every fire recorded in Kit Carson County

Storms near this place

60 of 116 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vona in 116 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 86 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 8 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2017Flash FloodVona$100,000Highway 24 was closed between Vona and Stratton due to water over the road. In some places the water was three feet deep. Vehicles have been washed off the road from the flood waters, and motorists have been rescued. No injuries were reported.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindVona$20,000Wind gusts to 60 mph were estimated. Two large semi trucks were reportedly blown over on Interstate 70 by the strong winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindVona$18,000This report was relayed via The Spotter Network. Shingles were blown off a roof, four-inch diameter tree branches were broken, a 30-foot tall spruce tree was toppled onto a house, and a grain bin was blown off its foundation and moved about one quarter of a mile. No injuries were reported.
July 2024HailVona$2,000Ping pong ball sized hail created numerous dents and shattered a windshield of a vehicle traveling on I-70.
May 2018HailVona$500The hail broke out the windshield on the chase vehicle.
August 2013HailVona$500The hail broke several windows in a home.
June 2025HailVona-Spotter estimated accumulating hail that ranged from penny to mostly quarters and ping pong ball in size. Hail was still falling 8 minutes after it started.
August 2025HailVona-Trained spotter reported hail ranging in size from pea to quarters in size.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindVona-WeatherLink site Livingston Ag Seibert measured the 61 mph wind gust.
May 2024HailVona-Trained spotter reported mostly nickel sized hail with a few quarter sized stones.
July 2024HailVona-Accumulating pea to quarter sized hail in a corn field. Depth of the hail accumulation was unknown.
July 2024HailVona-Estimated nickel sized hail fell in Vona.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindVona-Mesonet kcovona2 reported a 59 MPH gust.
June 2024HailVona-Dime to penny sized hail was observed.
June 2023HailVona-Spotter reported quarter sized hail at location.
June 2023HailVona-Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail.
July 2022Tornado (EF0)Vona-Garage building was shifted east 6 inches off the foundation. A communications tower just east of the garage was folded in half facing the east-northeast. Metal roof panels and pieces of siding were scattered east and west from the garage. A propane tank on the west side of the property was rolled to the south off its base. A playground set on the southwest corner of the house was ripped apart and scattered to the north. A trampoline was crumbled and blown to the northeast. Pieces of siding from the west facing side of the house were scattered across the property. The tornado then traveled west-southwest across Interstate 70 before dissipating.
July 2022FloodVona-Up to three to five inches of rainfall occurred in the area of Bethune and Stratton. This area also received a couple inches of rainfall a couple days earlier. Dispatch received three different reports of one to two feet of water over county roads in this area. In two of these reports the water extended for 10 to 20 feet over the road. No damage was reported.
May 2021HailVona-Report received of hail up to quarter size at location.
May 2021HailVona-Report received of hail from pea size up to penny size at location.
August 2021HailVona-Hail of atleast golf ball in size falling in town.
June 2020HailVona-Pea to penny sized hail fell on I-70 between mile markers 412-417 of I-70.
July 2020Tornado (EFU)Vona-Small roping (landspout) tornado reported. Estimated near MM412 of I-70. Evaluation of radar imagery indicates that most likely boundary interaction was southeast of MM412 of I-70.
July 2020Tornado (EFU)Vona-Landspout tornado reported by chaser via spotter network. Exact location estimated via radar.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Vona-A weak tornado was seen southwest of Kirk. No damage was reported with this tornado. No end time was given for the tornado.
July 2016HailVona-Estimated the time of the report from radar.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindVona-Branches that were estimated to be two inches in diameter were blown down.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Vona-Law enforcement and trained spotters reported a large tornado over open fields about 9 miles north of Vona. No damage was reported.
June 2015Flash FloodVona-About six inches of water was reported to be over Road JJ just east of Road 23.
June 2014HailVona-Time of report estimated from Doppler radar. A few quarter to ping pong ball size hailstones were reported among numerous pea size hailstones.
April 2013HailVona-Hail report received via The Spotter Network.
May 2011HailVona-The hail report was relayed by law enforcement on Interstate 70.
May 2011HailVona-In addition, accumulations of 1/2-inch diameter hail were so significant that the Colorado Department of Transportation was called out to plow Interstate 70 along a two mile stretch near Vona. The hail also prevented heavy rainfall from running off, resulting in standing water on portions of the Interstate in this area.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindVona-Several small tree limbs one to one and a half inches in diameter were broken off trees.
September 2009HailVona-Caller reported wind gusts estimated at 40 mph along with heavy rainfall in addition to the nickel sized hail.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindVona-Six traffic accidents occurred on Interstate 70 in Kit Carson County, Colorado between Vona and Stratton from 5:45 pm MDT to 6:00 pm MDT. Accidents were caused by strong thunderstorm outflow and rapidly reduced visibility in outflow winds.
May 2005HailVona-CoCoRaHS observer.
June 2005HailVona-Broken windshield and mirrors on car.
August 2001HailVona-Up to 6 windows broken from hail.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Vona-Brief tornado observed by law enforcement.
July 1995HailVona-Three-quarters inch hail also reported in Vona at 1953 MST.
October 1994HailVona-Tornado broke off power poles and tore tin roof of building.
April 2026HailVona-no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindVona-no account filed
July 2024HailVona-no account filed
July 2024HailVona-no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindVona-no account filed
July 2022HailVona-no account filed
July 2022HailVona-no account filed
June 2022HailVona-no account filed
August 2021HailVona-no account filed
July 2020HailVona-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindVona-no account filed
June 2018HailVona-no account filed
June 2018HailVona-no account filed
June 2018HailVona-no account filed
August 2017HailVona-no account filed
May 2014HailVona-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindVona-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindVona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kit Carson 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
Seibert6.7 miles8
Stratton7.3 miles8
Bethune16.9 miles11
Flagler17.2 miles8
Tuttle (historical)18.2 miles11
West Burlington23.0 miles10
Burlington25.1 miles10
Peconic31.5 miles10

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 VonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2516918The 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 195120. 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.