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Antero Junction, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80449. The Survey maps it on the Antero Reservoir quadrangle. It stands 9,187 feet above sea level.

Antero Junction within Park County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Antero Junction between 1992 and 2018, burning about 43 acres in total. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFAIRPLAY
14 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestKAUFMAN FIRE
11 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
11 August 1996Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSALTY
11 August 1992Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
10 August 2018Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSALT
6 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHIELDS GULCH
23 July 2017Smokingunder an acreHartsel Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Antero Junction: 5 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Feldspar, REE, Bismuth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clora May MineFeldspar, REE, Bismuth, Beryllium, Uranium, ThoriumPast ProducerAllanite, Beryl, Bismutite, Euxenite, Xenotime
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Iron Chest MineLead, ZincOccurrence1947
Mizpah Gold MineLead, Zinc, Gold, SilverOccurrenceGalena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite
Carson Mining and DevelopmentUraniumOccurrence
Carson Mining and DevelopmentUraniumUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Park 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Haver3.5 miles19
Trump (historical)10.7 miles14
Hartsel11.3 miles15
Balfour12.8 miles14
Garo13.3 miles15
Pike-San Isabel Village15.7 miles15
Horseshoe (historical)20.4 miles23
Leavick (historical)20.8 miles24

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 Antero JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4771420The 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 191088. 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.