BlockXenia, Colorado
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Akron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80720. The Survey maps it on the Fremont Butte quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Fremont Butte quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Fort Morgan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Xenia between 2003 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2020 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Akron Volunteer Fire Department | N/A |
| 6 July 2016 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Akron Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 6 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 20 July 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Akron Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 18 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Akron Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 13 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Akron Volunteer Fire Department | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Xenia in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Xenia | - | A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage. |
| April 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Xenia | - | A small tornado touched down but did no damage. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Xenia | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Xenia | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Xenia | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Xenia | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Xenia | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Xenia | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 182981. 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.