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Weston, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Weston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81091. It lies near Wet Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,890 feet above sea level.

Weston within Las Animas County

On record in Weston

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

Weston fell from 55 to 53 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
201055
202053-2 (-4%)

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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Weston between 1992 and 2018, burning about 403 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined6
Natural4
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 August 1992Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
18 July 2016Natural1.5 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
17 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWESTON
16 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWESTON
7 June 1995Naturalunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named
26 May 2000Natural395 acresPueblo CountyBOSQUE
16 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresStonewall Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
15 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLas Animas Countynot named

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 Weston: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Las Animas County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 13 hail, 3 heavy rain, 1 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
July 2010Flash FloodWeston$20,000Several roads north of Highway 12 sustained severe erosion due to deep, fast-flowing water.
June 2023Heavy RainWeston-There was 1.57 inches of rain reported.
June 2023Heavy RainWeston-There was 1.61 inches of rain recorded.
August 2021Heavy RainWeston-Heavy rainfall of 2.28 inches.
August 2019HailWeston-Nickel sized hail reported.
July 2016HailWeston-no account filed
June 2012HailWeston-no account filed
June 2012HailWeston-no account filed
June 2010HailWeston-no account filed
June 2010HailWeston-no account filed
July 2009HailWeston-no account filed
July 2009HailWeston-no account filed
June 2002HailWeston-no account filed
August 2002HailWeston-no account filed
May 2001HailWeston-no account filed
June 1996HailWeston-no account filed
June 1996HailWeston-no account filed

Every storm 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
Cordova Plaza1.0 miles21
Medina Plaza3.0 miles21
Velasquez Plaza3.6 miles20
Zamara4.1 miles21
Sarcillo4.8 miles21
Segundo5.0 miles21
Vigil5.3 miles21
Primero (historical)5.7 miles21

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 WestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7989353The 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 204810. 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.