How to read this page. This is the appendix to the dashboard's Sources panel. That panel is the primary record and is generated live from the data itself. This page carries the agency-level detail the panel links to: which body publishes each series, how often, and what it takes to pull it. Every figure on the dashboard is real and dated, not illustrative. That is the whole point of the tagging system.
Each pillar below lists its authoritative sources, update cadence and links. Sources marked Live should be pulled fresh before grant use. Manual entries need an agency contact or a login. Each entry is marked SAG (Saguache County), SLV (valley-wide or wider), or both, matching the geography toggle on the dashboard.
Last checked is the date on which that row was last added, reviewed or corrected. It records when the entry itself was last worked on, which is not the same as the vintage of the underlying data: a row checked on Sep 2, 2026 may still cite a 2022 table, and the row text says so where that matters. Not recorded means the row predates this column and has not been reviewed since. Those are the rows to check first before a grant deadline.
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DWR Groundwater Data Viewer | Unconfined aquifer vs. 1976 baseline (−1.2M AF) | Monthly | Manual | Jul 8, 2026 |
| NRCS SNOTEL | Snowpack % of average, Upper Rio Grande basin, peaked near 8%, worst in the basin's recorded history | Daily (season) | Live | Aug 26, 2026 |
| RGWCD annual reports | Annual deficit, over-pumping fee (now $150/AF; $500/AF proposed, $1,000 if targets are missed) | Annual | Manual | Not recorded |
| Colorado School of Public Health, 1,000-Well Study | SLV. Arsenic in private wells, roughly 1 in 4 tested exceed the EPA 10 ppb limit (SDC Laboratory, the Valley's only water lab). Study led by Kathy James. Testing delivered by CDPHE, CSPH and the SLV Public Health Partnership. | Study-based | Manual | Aug 11, 2026 |
| Colorado Open Lands, PARA | Conservation easement acres / pipeline | Quarterly | Manual | Aug 29, 2026 |
| DWR station RIODELCO, Rio Grande at Del Norte | Streamflow % of average. USGS stopped publishing gauge 08220000 on Jan 1, 2025; DWR is the primary record. The station page is JavaScript-rendered, so this needs a browser read. | Daily (real-time) | Manual | Not recorded |
| Colorado Water Court, Div. 3, Subdistrict 1 | SLV. Fourth Amended Plan trial status, closing arguments ended July 27, 2026; No ruling found as of October 20, 2026 (Water Court Division 3, RGWCD announcements and DWR checked), Judge Gonzales urged parties to "move forward" at trial's close; appeal expected either way | As filed | Manual | Oct 2, 2026 |
| Rio Grande Compact Commission / CWCB | SLV. Colorado held an accrued delivery credit of 7,200 AF as of January 1, 2025. Added to head off the common assumption that the 2031 deadline is a compact-violation problem, it is not. Colorado is meeting its interstate obligation; the aquifer deficit is internal to the Valley. | Annual | Manual | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Saguache County Firewise / USFS Title III | SAG. County wildfire mitigation runs on roughly $45,000/yr of USFS Title III money, tied to the same federal-land base as PILT, and therefore exposed to the same reauthorization risk. Stage 1 fire restrictions took effect June 18, 2026. | Annual | Manual | Aug 12, 2026 |
| U.S. Drought Monitor; groundwater governance timeline (SB 04-222, Subdistrict 1, pumping fees) | SLV. Current drought classification for Saguache County (44.5% Extreme/D3 or worse, down from 98.4% a week earlier, and 0% Exceptional/D4 on the map valid Oct 20, 2026; severe drought (D2) or worse still covers 98.8%; D4 was 0% on Oct 13 and Oct 6, about 40% on Sep 29, 67.0% on Sep 22, 67.4% on Sep 15, 58.7% on Sep 8 and 39.6% on Sep 1) and a dated timeline of SLV groundwater governance milestones. Conditions eased from the Aug 25, 2026 reading (59% D4) after September rains. Second sources: Kiowa County Press, Sep 4, 2026 (Saguache 40% exceptional and 60% extreme on the Sep 1 map, matching 39.6%) and Sep 17, 2026 (67% exceptional, up from 59%, on the Sep 15 map, matching 67.4% and 58.7%), and its water-year report saying the exceptional core stayed in the San Luis Valley on the Sep 22 map; Denver Gazette, Oct 16, 2026 (Colorado D4 at 8.47% on the Oct 13 map, with only mountain counties named as mostly D4, which fits 0% in Saguache but is not a county figure). The Oct 6, Oct 13 and Oct 20 county values have a single official source, the Drought Monitor itself. | Weekly / historical | Live | Oct 24, 2026 |
| DWR / Div. 3 trial testimony | Home page of the Colorado Division of Water Resources; the figures were read from trial testimony, not from a data table. | As filed | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| SLV Expert Consensus Analysis v3 | ScSEED document, available on request. The shared numbers agreed on by the valley expert panel. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| NRCS SNOTEL, Upper Rio Grande basin SWE | Map of automated snow stations; the dashboard uses snow water equivalent for the Upper Rio Grande basin. | Daily (season) | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Water Court Div. 3 | Colorado Judicial Branch page for the state water courts, where the Division 3 case for the Rio Grande basin is heard. | As filed | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| RGWCD / SLV Water Crisis brief | Home page of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District. The SLV Water Crisis brief is a ScSEED document, available on request. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Allen Davey, Davis Engineering Services, via Alamosa News | Home page of the Alamosa News, which reported the engineer's pumping figures. The link goes to the news site, not to the single story. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Colorado Open Lands / PERC / Big Pivots | Home page of Colorado Open Lands, the land trust behind the groundwater easement. Big Pivots (bigpivots.com, also checked and loading) reported on it. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| SDC Laboratory / CSPH (Kathy James) | Home page of the Colorado School of Public Health. Kathy James leads the well-water arsenic study. | Study-based | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Rio Grande Compact Commission / TCEQ engineer advisers report, 2025 | State page on interstate water compacts, which covers the Rio Grande Compact. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation, Sep 2, 2026 (SLV historical timeline slide) | Home page of the CU Boulder Business Research Division. The timeline came from a slide in the Sep 2, 2026 summit talk, which has no public page. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| U.S. Drought Monitor data services, county statistics, Saguache County (FIPS 08109) | County drought statistics for Saguache County (FIPS 08109) from the U.S. Drought Monitor: D4 was about 40% on Sep 29 (39.54%), 67.02% on Sep 22, 67.44% on Sep 15, 58.70% on Sep 8 and 39.58% on Sep 1; on Oct 6 D3 was 100% and D4 0%; on Oct 13 D3 was 98.37% and D4 0%; on Oct 20 D3 was 44.47%, D2 98.82% and D4 0% (map valid Oct 20 to Oct 26, 2026), so extreme drought dropped from 98.4% a week earlier while severe drought or worse still covers 98.8%. | Weekly | Live | Oct 24, 2026 |
| Colorado DNR, SB 22-028 appropriation | Colorado Department of Natural Resources news release: SB 22-028 appropriates $60 million from the Economic Recovery and Relief Cash Fund to speed groundwater sustainability in the Rio Grande and Republican basins. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Census Bureau ACS | Median income, poverty, child poverty, vacancy | Annual (Sept) | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| DOLA State Demography Office | Population, net migration, growth | Quarterly/Annual | Live | Aug 29, 2026 |
| BLS QCEW, County Employment and Wages in Colorado | Average weekly wage; sector employment. Q1 2026 release (Sep 4, 2026), Table 2, confirms Saguache covered employment fell from 1,690 (Mar 2025) to 1,536 (Mar 2026), -154 jobs / -9.1%, steepest in the six-county region; average weekly wage $833. BLS does not publish county percent-change for counties this size, figure hand-calculated from the levels. Q2 2026 not yet released, expected roughly December 2026. | Quarterly, ~5 to 6 month publication lag | Live | Oct 2, 2026 |
| Colorado CDLE LAUS | Unemployment rate. Also the second source for the 2019 to 2023 labor force change: CDLE labor force estimates (data.colorado.gov dataset 4e3w-qire, same federal-state program, state publisher) give −3.8% for the six counties and −2.0% for Saguache, pulled Oct 20, 2026, against −3.9% and −2.0% from BLS. | Monthly | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Placer.AI (ScSEED license) | Visitor foot-traffic & origin markets | Quarterly | Manual | Not recorded |
| U.S. Dept. of the Interior, FY2026 PILT county payments | SAG + SLV. DOI's own table lists Saguache at $755,329 on 1,396,548 eligible federal acres (six-county total ≈$3.05M: Conejos $1,150,671 · Rio Grande $812,971 · Saguache $755,329 · Alamosa $200,029 · Mineral $129,691 · Costilla $876). Saguache's own FY2026 Adopted Budget books PILT at $1,397,550 for the same year, consistent with three straight fiscal years in the county's signed budget resolutions. The dashboard now reports the county's own figure; this table is kept for comparison, and the gap between the two remains unresolved. | Annual | Live | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Saguache County FY2025 and FY2026 Adopted Budget resolutions and worksheets, County Clerk's office | SAG. Gives PILT and SRS as two separate figures, retiring the placeholder ≈$5.2M combined figure the Talk/Outline/Stage Reference had been carrying. PILT: $1,139,486 (2023 actual), $1,330,837 (2025 actual through Sept.), $1,397,550 (2026 Adopted Budget). SRS: $1,191,828 (2024), $1,200,000 (2025), not yet budgeted for 2026. LeRoy reviewed the source budget resolutions directly and confirmed this is now the reporting figure for PILT, replacing the DOI FY2026 table used previously. | Annual | Manual | Sep 3, 2026 |
| USDA NASS, 2022 Census of Agriculture, county profiles | SAG + SLV. Producer age. SLV: 1,060 of 2,827 are 65 or older (37%); 330 under 35. Saguache 211 of 520 (4.8:1); Alamosa 216 of 523 (5.5:1); Conejos 271 of 802; Rio Grande 220 of 654; Costilla 142 of 328. Mineral negligible. | 5-year | Live | Aug 11, 2026 |
| Urban Rural Continuum LLC, Casita Park For-Sale Market Snapshot (Mar 2026) | SAG. Prepared for Saguache County and its Housing Authority. Also the source of the permit figure: 60 residential permits in unincorporated Saguache County in 2025, about 1.5% of 4,030 housing units (p. 9). $300/sq ft build cost producing a $110,000 capital gap on a 1,200 sq ft home at $250K. Household growth 0.4% CAGR; job growth −0.2% CAGR through 2028; only 65+ growing. 64% out-commuting, ~50% in-commuting. ScSEED has no formal role in this project. Contested, capital gap: the $300/sq ft build cost here conflicts with the board strategy's below-$200/sq ft delivery target and a separate internal $350/sq ft ScSEED estimate; not reconciled, both shown on the dashboard. Contested, out-commuting: the 64% here is more than double ACS Table B08007's 29.9% for Saguache, almost certainly different denominators; not reconciled, both shown on the dashboard. | One-time | Live | Sep 3, 2026 |
| SLV Housing Affordability Full 102426 · SLV Housing Needs Assessment 2021 | SLV. Affordable purchase price: the Saguache County median income of $50,082 buys $169,500 at 30% of income and a 7.40% rate ($226,000 at 40%). ~1,885 homes needed through 2026 (2021 SLV Housing Needs Assessment: 755 to own, 1,190 to rent). 47% of renters and 26% of owners cost-burdened. 31% of households have no worker at all vs 18% statewide. ~900 jobs unfilled against ~900 workers reaching retirement. Vacancy runs 25-31% vs 10% statewide (2021 SLV Housing Needs Assessment, SLV Housing Coalition, as cited in SLV Housing Affordability Full 102426), mostly run-down homes rather than homes empty by choice, 35%+ of stock over 50 years old. Contested: vacancy also appears as 31.4% valley-wide (2026 CEDS, ACS 2023), 25.2% valley-wide and 24.6% Saguache (2025 Statistical Profile), and 16.3% Saguache (ACS 2024) -- different geographies, years and definitions; none of these are averaged together, see the dashboard's Housing pillar for all figures side by side. | Periodic | Live | Oct 25, 2026 |
| USFS PILT / Secure Rural Schools | SAG + SLV. Federal transfers stand in for an untaxable base, ~$6.4M/yr across six counties. P.L. 119-58 (Dec 2025) reauthorized SRS through FY2026 only; final FY2024-FY2025 payments arrive 2027. FY2027 has no current authorization. | Annual | Manual | Aug 17, 2026 |
| Census QuickFacts, Saguache County | SAG. Labor force participation (58.1%, 2020-2024) and bachelor's-degree-or-higher (31.3%), added as skills-diversity and workforce indicators. "Some college, no degree" specifically needs a separate ACS S1501 pull. Also the source of the corrected Saguache poverty rate, 23.7%, see the vintage note below. | 5-year ACS | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Poverty and median income, geography and vintage note | SAG + SLV. Two corrections made in this revision. Poverty: the dashboard previously showed 17.8% in both views. That is the valley-wide figure; Saguache County alone is 23.7% (Census QuickFacts). The two are now shown separately, so the Saguache view no longer understates local poverty by about six points. Median household income: the 2025 SLV Statistical Profile gives $54,283 for Saguache while Census QuickFacts gives $50,082 for 2020-2024 in 2024 dollars. Both are ACS, different vintages, and the Census Bureau warns that vintages are not directly comparable. Cite one and name which, do not average them. | Annual | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Census Business Formation Statistics | SAG + SLV. New business applications by county, released annually each June. The 2025 county file (bfs_county_apps_annual.xlsx) was released Jun 10, 2026 and covers Saguache; entrepreneurship/diversification indicator, county row not yet extracted. See Intern Guide. | Annual | Manual | Oct 2, 2026 |
| CNBC Top States for Business | State context. Colorado fell from 11th (2022) to 25th (2026), the headwind ScSEED's local work is set against. | Annual | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Census Nonemployer Statistics & County Business Patterns | SAG. 758 nonemployer establishments against 130 employer establishments, 791 people on a payroll countywide, and payroll employment down 11.7% from 2022 to 2023 (reference year 2023). This is the sharpest available portrait of the local business base: overwhelmingly self-employed, with a payroll sector small enough that one closure moves the percentage. | Annual | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| SLV Economic Expert Consensus Analysis v3 | SLV. Synthesis of the published work of 30 leading San Luis Valley authorities, 2018-2026 (June 28, 2026). Source for: net recharge required to hit the 2031 target (~170,000 AF/yr); Saguache child poverty above 30%; ~136.7 MW solar operating across five utility-scale plants with ~155 MW approved; agriculture at ~30% of base income; government at 21% of valley jobs; all six counties designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs); and the Success Metrics table adopted as Dashboard indicators. Also the independent corroboration of the Saguache poverty correction: Alamosa, Costilla and Saguache are federally designated Persistent Poverty Counties at 20%+ for 30 years or more, which is inconsistent with the 17.8% previously shown. | Periodic | Manual | Aug 12, 2026 |
| La Puente, programs and reach | SLV. 44 years serving the Valley; 12,000+ residents currently receiving services; 250+ uninhabitable "invisible" dwellings documented against a formal count of zero. Program set includes New Beginnings (vocational assessment, job placement and coaching, medication management, certified peer-specialist services, peer-led classes), Adelante Supportive Housing, Crisis Prevention, Street Outreach, VEGI, and a fifteen-pantry Food Bank Network. New chief executive as of March 2026 following Lance Cheslock's 36 years. Basis for restating Action 6 from ScSEED-led to La Puente-led. | Ongoing | Manual | Aug 12, 2026 |
| U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account | State context. Colorado's outdoor recreation economy at $18.1B (2024 data, released March 2026); $1.3 trillion and 5.2 million jobs nationally. Most public-lands visitor spending lands in rural gateway communities, the category the Valley's dark-sky and crane products compete in. | Annual | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| 2025 SLV Statistical Profile (SLV Development Resources Group / Council of Governments, March 2025) | SAG + SLV. Full county-by-county tables (p.4) confirm two items previously flagged: the base-industry household total (5,040) is a published row, "Households, Total," not a ScSEED aggregation, and its 408 line is SDO's own "Other Household Income," not dividends/interest/rent. Its labor force table (2019-2023, Valley −12.3%, Saguache −13.6%, p.3) is not confirmed: it does not match the federal series checked county by county (BLS LAUS: −3.9% for the six counties, −2.0% for Saguache), so the dashboard uses the BLS figures. The table does independently reproduce the CEDS poverty-by-county figures to the decimal. Source for the new retail sales growth tile (SLV +31.2%, 2020-2024, p.4) and new veteran population tile (2,501, 8.6% of adults, p.3). The latter is new to the 2025 edition. Contested: this table's federal-only land share, 55.7% valley-wide, is also the source for the dashboard's land-ownership figure. The Summit talk separately speaks 46% including state land, which cannot be lower than a federal-only figure; the two have not been reconciled and this is flagged as the highest-priority open factual item in the set. | Annual | Live | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Gary Horvath / CBER, Colorado economic-update emails, Jun to Aug 2026 | State context. Statewide labor market only, no SLV-specific figures: May 2026 CO unemployment 3.9% (US 4.3%); Colorado wage/salary employment turned positive in May-June 2026 after 16 months of YoY declines; net +213,400 CO jobs Jan 2019 to Jul 2026, 76% concentrated in healthcare, professional/technical services, and state/local government. One line of context was added to the Saguache LAUS tile in the 082526 round, then pulled back out in 082626 per a direct call to keep this dashboard SLV-only, not reflected anywhere on the page now. Logged here as reviewed, in case a future SLV-specific figure surfaces in this series. | Monthly | Manual | Aug 26, 2026 |
| U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, table B15003 | SAG + SLV. Educational attainment, population 25 and over, pulled directly for all six SLV counties plus Colorado (Claude in Chrome, cross-checked against the Bureau's own S1501 subject table for Colorado). Replaces the SLV CEDS Fig. 12 / B15002 transcription that summed to 88.2% (SLV) / 91.2% (Colorado) instead of 100%, open since the 081926 audit. SLV figure is population-weighted across the six counties, same convention as the income chart. | 5-year ACS | Live | Aug 26, 2026 |
| CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation (Brian Lewandowski), Sep 2, 2026 | SAG + SLV. Six items added: SLV-wide 12-month covered-employment change (BLS QCEW, precisely labeled on its own chart, marked Verified); Saguache 12-month covered-employment change (BLS QCEW, approximate, read from chart); SLV-wide QCEW wage and pay growth through Q3 2025; industry location quotients (approximate); Saguache state-taxable-sales trend through May 2026 YTD (approximate); and SLV labor-force year-over-year change through June 2026, which is far more current than the dashboard's existing 2019-2023 ACS-based figure. The remaining chart-read items stay marked Cited, not Verified, pending confirmation against the underlying BLS/Census tables. | One-time (Sep 2026 presentation) | Live | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 2025 SLV Statistical Profile / ACS | Census Bureau page for the American Community Survey. The 2025 SLV Statistical Profile is a regional report, ScSEED copy available on request. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Colorado State Demography Office 2025 estimate via Erin Minks/SLVDRG presentation, Sep 2, 2026 (valley figure) | Home page of the Colorado State Demography Office. The valley figure was read from the Sep 2, 2026 presentation. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Colorado Enterprise Zone program / 2026 SLV CEDS | State page for the Enterprise Zone program, which gives tax credits to businesses that invest in qualifying areas. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BLS LAUS via FRED (COSAGU9URN) | Monthly unemployment rate for Saguache County, shown by the St. Louis Fed from Bureau of Labor Statistics data. | Monthly | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BLS LAUS via FRED, six SLV counties, 2019 and 2023 annual averages | Home page of the Bureau of Labor Statistics program that publishes county labor force and unemployment numbers. | Monthly / annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| 2025 SLV Statistical Profile / ACS 2024 | Census Bureau page for the American Community Survey. The 2025 SLV Statistical Profile is a regional report, ScSEED copy available on request. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| SLV Expert Consensus Analysis v3 (2025 figure) | ScSEED document, available on request. The 2025 figure from the valley expert panel. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Saguache County FY2026 Adopted Budget, GL 01-43330-100 | Saguache County page that lists the adopted county budgets. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Saguache County Budget 2024-2026, PILT/SRS worksheet, provided by the county administrator | Worksheet handed to us by the county administrator, available on request. It is not on a public page, so there is no link. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| DOI FY2026 PILT county payments | Interior Department page for the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| 2025 SLV Statistical Profile p.4, Base Industry Analysis table / 2026 CEDS Fig. 24, same SDO source data | Home page of the Colorado State Demography Office, the data source behind the table. The agribusiness figure of 5,029 counts job-equivalents. A separate count of people, 4,760 employed or about 21% of the workforce, comes from the CSU REDI potato study (Sept 2025). The 2025 SLV Statistical Profile is a ScSEED copy, available on request. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| P.L. 119-58, SRS Reauthorization Act of 2025 / NACo summary | The text of Public Law 119-58, which renewed the Secure Rural Schools program. NACo also posted a summary (naco.org, checked and loading). | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| USDA Census of Agriculture 2022 | Home page of the USDA Census of Agriculture, which counts farms and farm operators every five years. | Every 5 years | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Adams State / 2026 CEDS | Home page of Adams State University in Alamosa. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Census ACS 5-yr / QuickFacts | Census Bureau QuickFacts table for Saguache County, which draws on the American Community Survey. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Census QuickFacts / Nonemployer Statistics & County Business Patterns, 2023 | Census Bureau page for Nonemployer Statistics, which counts businesses that have no employees. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Census QuickFacts / County Business Patterns, 2023 | Census Bureau page for County Business Patterns, which counts businesses and jobs by county. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| 2025 SLV Statistical Profile p.4 / CO Dept. of Revenue, State Sales Tax Data by County, 2024 | State data page called Retail Reports by County in Colorado. The 2025 SLV Statistical Profile is a ScSEED copy, available on request. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BLS, County Employment and Wages in Colorado, Q1 2026 release (Sep 4, 2026), Table 2 | The Bureau of Labor Statistics news release on first quarter 2026 jobs and wages in Colorado counties. | Quarterly | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BLS QCEW via Brian Lewandowski / CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation, Sep 2, 2026 | Home page of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The county figures were read from the Sep 2, 2026 summit presentation. | Quarterly | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BLS QCEW via CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation, Sep 2, 2026 | Home page of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The figures were read from the Sep 2, 2026 summit presentation. | Quarterly | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation, Sep 2, 2026 | Home page of the CU Boulder Business Research Division. The figures came from its Sep 2, 2026 summit presentation, which has no public page. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Colorado Dept. of Revenue via CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation, Sep 2, 2026 | State data page called Retail Reports by County in Colorado. The trend was read from the Sep 2, 2026 summit presentation. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics via CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation, Sep 2, 2026 | Home page of the Bureau of Labor Statistics program that publishes county labor force numbers. The figures were read from the Sep 2, 2026 summit presentation. | Monthly / annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO HCPF | Medicaid enrollment (% of population) | Monthly | Manual | Oct 20, 2026 |
| CDPHE Vital Stats / ODA | Overdose deaths & trend | Annual/Monthly | Live | Not recorded |
| HRSA Health Workforce | Behavioral-health providers per 1,000; shortage status | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| CDC BRFSS | Adults reporting poor mental health | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| Colorado CDE | Free/reduced lunch (child-poverty proxy) | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| Feeding America | Food-insecurity rate | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| SLV Health / Hope in the Valley | Operating margin, beds, MAT patients, track full payer mix (Medicaid + ACA + commercial + uninsured), not Medicaid share alone | Quarterly | Manual | Not recorded |
| CO HCPF / CMS, RHTP (H.R.1 §71401) | First round $160M (closed Aug 3, 2026); $170.2M awarded in 92 awards to 91 applicants Sep 28, 2026, incl. $9.2M to SLV Health; Valley total four awards totaling $17.2M, with Valley-Wide Health Systems (two awards, $8.05M together) (HCPF awardee list, read Oct 20, 2026).; Year 1 federal allocation $200.1M | Annual cycles | Live | Oct 2, 2026 |
| CO HCPF, RHTP awardee list | Four Valley awards totaling $17.2M, including Valley-Wide Health Systems (two awards, $8.05M together); read Oct 20, 2026. Advisory Committee meets Oct 26, 2026. | Annual cycles | Live | Oct 20, 2026 |
| UNC Sheps Center, closure risk | Conejos County Hospital on 9-hospital CO watch (Apr 2026) | Periodic | Manual | Aug 11, 2026 |
| HRSA Area Health Resources File / Shortage Areas | SLV. Primary care and specialist physicians per 100,000, added as standard access benchmarks; county figures not yet pulled. | Annual | Manual | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Census Small Area Health Insurance Estimates | SAG. 15.7% of Saguache residents under 65 are uninsured. Added because it is the leading indicator for the payer-mix erosion described above, uninsured patients using the emergency room as the front door are what turn a Medicaid cut into a hospital's operating loss. | Annual | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| SLV Local Foods Coalition, Community Food Access | SLV. The entire San Luis Valley is classified LILA (low-income, low-access) for food. Winter access is worst, thin shelves, high prices. The Coalition is testing community-owned co-ops, buying clubs and mobile markets; South Fork/Creede convened on grocery access in May 2026. | Ongoing | Manual | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Childcare access, Center for American Progress / Colorado Sun | State context, SAG gap. About half of Coloradans live in a childcare desert; the shortfall costs the state an estimated $2.7B a year in lost productivity. Added as a labor-force constraint rather than a family-services line, it sits directly against the 58.1% participation rate. The Saguache-specific licensed-capacity count is an open manual pull from the Colorado Shines registry. | Periodic | Manual | Aug 12, 2026 |
| SLV Health / 2026 CEDS | Home page of San Luis Valley Health, the valley's main hospital and clinic system. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| CDPHE ODA | Colorado health department overdose data (Opioid Data to Action). We could not confirm a public page that loads, so there is no link. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Census QuickFacts / Small Area Health Insurance Estimates | Census Bureau page for Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, which show how many people lack health insurance by county. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| USDA LILA classification / SLV Local Foods Coalition | USDA Food Access Research Atlas, which marks low-income, low-access areas. The SLV Local Foods Coalition (slvlocalfoods.org/cfa) says the whole valley counts as LILA. | Periodic | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Colorado Sun / Center for American Progress | Center for American Progress article on child care deserts. The Colorado Sun (coloradosun.com, checked and loading) reported on state child care. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| 2025 SLV Statistical Profile p.3 / Census S2101 Veteran Status, ACS 2019-2023 5-Yr | Census Bureau page for the American Community Survey, which is the source of table S2101 on veteran status. The profile is a ScSEED copy, available on request. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
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| Alamosa News / Alamosa Citizen | Regional utility-scale solar (600 MW, Alamosa Co.) | As milestones | Live | Aug 29, 2026 |
| Saguache County Planning / Assessor | Two solar pre-applications; data-center 1041 moratorium (May 5, 2026 to Nov 5, 2026); first community information meeting Sep 3, 2026. The Oct 20, 2026 county agenda lists item 4, Data Center Moratorium Extension, at about 1:30 p.m. Result not yet posted as of Oct 20, 2026. The Oct 13, 2026 1:00 p.m. hearing was on a resolution to repeal and replace the county's 1041 regulations (fix a typo, clarify that the Board is not involved in preapplication, and revise preapplication and application fees). Result not yet posted as of Oct 20, 2026. The notice of the hearing does not mention the moratorium. | Quarterly | Manual | Oct 2, 2026 |
| Saguache County BOCC agendas page | The Board of County Commissioners agenda for Tuesday, Oct 20, 2026 (9:00 a.m. meeting) lists item 4, Data Center Moratorium Extension (Land Use Administrator Amber Wilson, about 1:30 p.m.). No result was posted when last checked on Oct 23, 2026, so the moratorium (adopted May 5, expires Nov 5) remains open. | Per meeting | Manual | Oct 23, 2026 |
| Notice of the Oct 13 hearing | NewsBreak copy of the county notice of the Oct 13, 2026 hearing on the 1041 regulations. The Oct 13, 2026 1:00 p.m. hearing was on a resolution to repeal and replace the county's 1041 regulations (fix a typo, clarify that the Board is not involved in preapplication, and revise preapplication and application fees). Result not yet posted as of Oct 20, 2026. The notice of the hearing does not mention the moratorium. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| SLVREC | Three data-center inquiries; grid/rate context | Annual | Manual | Aug 11, 2026 |
| Colorado Energy Office | Statewide renewable-energy progress | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| CO Dept. of Agriculture, Agrivoltaics | Dual-use solar grant & pilots (Garnet Mesa model) | Grant cycles | Live | Not recorded |
| CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation (Brian Lewandowski), Sep 2, 2026 | SLV. Two historical-context items from the presentation's SLV timeline slide: first utility-scale solar in the Valley (2007) and the start of the SLVREC/Ciello gigabit fiber rollout (2014). | One-time (Sep 2026 presentation) | Live | Sep 2, 2026 |
| SLVREC / 2026 CEDS | Home page of San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, the valley's electric co-op. | As needed | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| EIA | U.S. Energy Information Administration overview page for Colorado energy. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| SB 23-092 program | Colorado Department of Agriculture page for the Agrivoltaics grant program created by Senate Bill 23-092. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
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| Placer.AI, Tourism module (ScSEED license) | Trips, visitors, visit-nights, stay, spending, origin DMAs | Monthly | Manual | Not recorded |
| NPS IRMA, Great Sand Dunes | Annual visitation (2023: 512,219; −14.6% 2024; −1.2% 2025) | Annual | Live | Aug 10, 2026 |
| NPS Visitor Spending Effects, Great Sand Dunes | SLV. Visitor spending $29.5M in 2024 (2024 data, released September 2025); replaces the earlier $32.5M figure. No 2025 edition found. | Annual | Live | Oct 20, 2026 |
| Colorado Open Lands & Friends of the SLV Refuges, crane migration study (2020) | SLV. Ciaglo, Balint & Nehring. 16,500 visitors over a 30-day window mid-February to mid-March; ~$3.5M economic impact including $118,000 in local taxes. | One-time study | Live | Aug 11, 2026 |
| Sangre de Cristo International Dark Sky Reserve (proposed) · SLV Tourism | SLV. Basis for a Valley-wide destination marketing organization, the only asset large enough to brand all six towns rather than fund six separate marketing budgets. | As designated | Manual | Aug 11, 2026 |
| Saguache County Tourism Council | Traditional lodging capacity, events, wayfinding | As available | Manual | Not recorded |
| Saguache County STR permit registry / AirDNA | SAG. Short-term rental unit count and % of housing stock, short-term rentals are the majority lodging-tax contributor in the Crestone area and were previously excluded from lodging counts; added here to fix that. Shared indicator with the Housing pillar (STR share of the 4,137-unit housing stock). No public county figure exists: confirmed August 12, 2026 that neither the state nor commercial aggregators publish a Saguache-level count, so this must come from the county's own permit registry cross-checked against AirDNA or Key Data. | Annual | Manual | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Colorado General Assembly, Short-Term Rentals issue brief | SAG + SLV. Colorado has no statewide STR statute. Any rental under 30 days is an STR, and counties hold the authority to license, cap and tax them. State sales tax 2.9% plus local lodging taxes typically 2-10%. Benchmark for judging a Saguache count when it arrives: Frisco caps STR licenses at 25% of residential stock (~900), a cap reached in February 2023, and most Colorado resort counties that set caps have hit them. Saguache's rules are the county's to write, which makes the count a policy input, not just a statistic. | As amended | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Colorado Open Lands / Friends of the SLV Refuges, 2020 | Home page of Colorado Open Lands. The Friends of the SLV Refuges website did not load for us, so it has no link. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Colorado Tourism Office / 2026 CEDS | State page for the Colorado Tourism Office. | Annual | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Colorado Public Radio | Kosmos Stargazing Resort: opening and 2027 completion. The telescope claim is the developer's. | As reported | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| ScSEED, Jun 17, 2026 | ScSEED document, available on request. A June 17, 2026 item. | One-time | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Colorado General Assembly, STR issue brief | Colorado General Assembly issue brief on short-term rentals. | As updated | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| regional reporting | Regional reporting, see the specific item. It is local news and word of mouth, so there is no single page to link. | As reported | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
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| Census ACS Housing (DP04/B25106/B25077/B25064) | Units, tenure, vacancy, median value, median rent, cost burden | Annual | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Saguache County Housing Authority | Workforce-unit pipeline (Range View, 32 units, opened September 2026; Alamosa News, Sept 23, 2026) | As milestones | Manual | Oct 25, 2026 |
| SLV Housing Coalition, Regional Study | Severe housing-shortage prevalence (25.2%) | Periodic | Manual | Not recorded |
| CHFA / Bell Policy Center (2025) | Cost-burden benchmarks (CO statewide) | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| DOLA, Proposition 123 State Affordable Housing Fund | SAG + SLV. Prop 123 has financed more than 10,000 homes statewide, including in rural communities previously locked out of state housing money. Status change: the FY2026-27 state budget moved $130 million out of the Prop 123 fund on June 30, 2026 (HB26-1360), about 40% of the year's allocation (Colorado Newsline, April 9, 2026; Housing Online, April 22, 2026), so the dashboard's status moved from "Funding open" to "Open but reduced." Opting in still requires a 3%-a-year affordable-stock growth commitment and fast-track approval; DOLA planning-capacity grants exist for governments too small to staff the application. Apply earlier in the cycle, not later. | Annual cycles | Live | Oct 25, 2026 |
| Census Building Permits Survey & ACS housing detail | SAG. 70 building permits issued countywide in 2025 against 4,137 housing units, roughly 1.7%, much of it replacement rather than net new supply. Median gross rent $828; median owner cost $1,315 with a mortgage and $458 without; 76.9% owner-occupied. The thin rental market is why high vacancy and a housing shortage coexist without contradiction. | Annual | Live | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Dodge Construction Network; U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, via CU Leeds Business Research Division presentation, Sep 2, 2026 | SLV. Two items: value of construction (2025 +45% YoY, then down 48% through July 2026 YTD) and building permits (2025 -16%, then up 28% through July 2026 YTD, single-family and multifamily both rebounding). Neither series was previously on this dashboard. | One-time (Sep 2026 presentation) | Live | Sep 2, 2026 |
| SLV Housing Needs Assessment 2021 / SLV Housing Affordability Full 102426 | ScSEED document, available on request. The 2021 needs study and the October 2026 affordability report. | One-time | Manual | Oct 25, 2026 |
| Census QuickFacts / Building Permits Survey, 2025 | Census Bureau page for the Building Permits Survey, which counts new housing permits. | Monthly / annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Census QuickFacts / ACS 5-yr | Census Bureau QuickFacts table for Saguache County, which draws on the American Community Survey. Source of the median gross rent, $828 for 2020-2024, read Oct 25, 2026. Also counts 70 building permits countywide in 2025 against 4,137 housing units (July 1, 2025). | Annual | Live | Oct 25, 2026 |
| Dodge Construction Network via CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation, Sep 2, 2026 | Home page of Dodge Construction Network, which tracks construction projects. The valley numbers were read from the Sep 2, 2026 summit presentation. | Monthly | Manual | Oct 21, 2026 |
| U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey via CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation, Sep 2, 2026 | Census Bureau page for the Building Permits Survey. The valley numbers were read from the Sep 2, 2026 summit presentation. | Monthly / annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
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| U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAINC4 (Personal Income by County) | Total personal income, earned share, earnings by place of residence vs. place of work, six-county sums, 2024 | Annual | Live | Aug 17, 2026 |
| U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAINC35 (Personal Current Transfer Receipts) | Detailed transfer breakdown: retirement/Social Security, medical benefits, cash assistance. Last updated Nov 16, 2023; carries no 2023 or 2024 data, so every detailed transfer percentage on this pillar is 2022. | Annual (stalled) | Live | Aug 17, 2026 |
| U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAINC5N (Personal Income by Major Component and Earnings by Industry) | Farm earnings and government earnings, share of valley income, six-county sums, 2015-2024, no suppression in any county in any year | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| BEA CAINC4 / CAINC35, six-county sum, computed Aug 17, 2026 | Bureau of Economic Analysis regional tables (CAINC4 and CAINC35). We added up the six counties. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BEA CAINC5N farm earnings, six-county sum, 2015-2024, no suppression in any county in any year | Bureau of Economic Analysis regional table CAINC5N, farm earnings. We added up the six counties. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BEA CAINC5N, six-county sum, fully disclosed | Bureau of Economic Analysis regional table CAINC5N. We added up the six counties. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BEA CAINC35 line 2200, six-county sum, 2022 | Bureau of Economic Analysis regional table CAINC35, line 2200. We added up the six counties. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BEA CAINC35 line 2100, six-county sum, 2022 | Bureau of Economic Analysis regional table CAINC35, line 2100. We added up the six counties. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BEA CAINC35 line 2300, six-county sum, 2022 | Bureau of Economic Analysis regional table CAINC35, line 2300. We added up the six counties. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BEA CAINC4 by county, 2024 | Bureau of Economic Analysis regional table CAINC4, shown county by county. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BEA CAINC4 lines 35-45, by county, 2024 | Bureau of Economic Analysis regional table CAINC4, lines 35 to 45, shown county by county. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |
| BEA CAINC5N suppressed cell total, six-county sum, 2024 | Bureau of Economic Analysis regional table CAINC5N. This row totals the cells BEA hides to protect privacy. | Annual | Live | Oct 21, 2026 |