BlockYellow Jacket, Colorado
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Pleasant View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81335. The Survey maps it on the Yellow Jacket quadrangle. It stands 6,900 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1956 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Yellow Jacket quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Dove Creek quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
42 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Yellow Jacket between 1994 and 2020, burning about 428 acres in total. 36 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | DAWSON RIM |
| 30 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | San Juan National Forest | BEAN III |
| 9 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | YELLOW JACKET |
| 21 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Lewis-Arriola Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 11 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | SANDSTONE CANYON |
| 10 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Ute Mountain Ute Agency | FENCE LINE |
| 8 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | YELLOW JAC |
| 7 July 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Tres Rios Field Office | NEET |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yellow Jacket in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 4 heavy rain, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2003 | Hail | Yellow Jacket | $12,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Yellow Jacket | - | Within 30 minutes, 0.85 of an inch of rain fell near Yellow Jacket, Colorado. |
| July 2017 | Heavy Rain | Yellow Jacket | - | Within 50 minutes, showers and thunderstorms produced 1.29 inches of rain. |
| July 2016 | Heavy Rain | Yellow Jacket | - | Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall in Montezuma County with 2.20 inches measured northeast of Yellow Jacket over a 36 hour period. Standing water was found in the observer's yard the morning of July 2nd. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Yellow Jacket | - | The hail damaged gardens and orchards as it was accompanied by 50 mph winds which snapped off 4 inch diameter tree limbs. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Yellow Jacket | - | Heavy rainfall rates of around a half of an inch per hour caused ponding of water on area roadways. |
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.
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 Yellow Jacket | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8051752 | The 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 176860. 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.