Alice, Colorado

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Idaho Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80452. It lies near Anchor Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Empire quadrangle.

Alice within Clear Creek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 29 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.

1905 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500
1910 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1912 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Empire quadrangle1:24000, 11 printings
1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Alice between 1993 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	WHITE HORSE
8 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	MAD CREEK
6 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
29 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	CONQUERER
26 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BROOMFIELD
25 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	ST MARY'S
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	LAWSON
19 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clear Creek County Office	CCX 669

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 358 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 358 workings within 5 miles of Alice: 273 past producers, 46 occurrences, 30 producers, 7 unknowns. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alpha	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer
American Sisters	Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer	Galena, Sphalerite
Angeline	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver	Producer	Vein
Atlantic & Brighton	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Underground
Bachus Group	Gold, Lead	Past Producer	Underground
Bellevue-Rochester	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, Zinc	Past Producer	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite
Bellview-Hudson	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Producer	Vein
Bellvue-Hudson Group	Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold	Producer	Vein
Clear Creek & Gilpin Tunnel	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead	Past Producer	Galena, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Copenhagen	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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
Saint Marys	0.3 miles	29
Ninetyfour (historical)	0.7 miles	29
Yankee (historical)	1.1 miles	27
Lawson	3.7 miles	29
Downieville	3.9 miles	27
Dumont	4.3 miles	27
Empire	4.5 miles	29
Freeland	5.7 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 181369. 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.