Angora, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Rangely census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81648. It lies near School Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Divide Creek quadrangle. It stands 5,466 feet above sea level.

Angora within Rio Blanco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1907 USGS Rangely quadrangle1:125000
1910 USGS Rangely quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Divide Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Rangely quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Angora between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,511 acres in total. 81 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	81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
6 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	COAL RIDGE
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	YANK
21 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	MONUMENT
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	GOOSE
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	MISSY
14 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	BURNT
13 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	EDDIE
9 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	MONUMENT

Every fire recorded in Rio Blanco County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Angora: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown Sandpit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Rio Blanco 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
Rangely	13.6 miles	14
White River City	19.5 miles	11
Meeker	36.4 miles	16
Rio Blanco	45.1 miles	18
Thornburgh	46.7 miles	17
Buford	52.5 miles	17

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 Angora	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108607044	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 171599. 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.