Akin, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the De Beque census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81630. It lies near Horseshoe Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Wagon Track Ridge quadrangle.

Akin within Mesa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1929 USGS Roan Creek quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Wagon Track Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Akin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,190 acres in total. 141 started naturally. 1 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	141
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
9 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	LIL'KIMBEL
8 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	BLACK MOUNTAIN
7 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	PALISADE
5 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	JACKSON CY
3 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	LEELAND
20 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	BURNING BUSH
2 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	N WILD HOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mesa 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 Akin: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Nichols Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mesa 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
De Beque	6.1 miles	17
Cameo	7.9 miles	16
Mesa	9.0 miles	16
John Held Corner	10.6 miles	16
Palisade	11.0 miles	15
Molina	11.7 miles	15
Mount Lincoln	12.1 miles	12
Bridges Switch	13.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 202230. 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.