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Antlers, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rifle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81650. It stands on Mamm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Silt quadrangle.

Antlers within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Antlers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. 99 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined82
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionHELMER GULCH
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionRAMSEY
7 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand Junction320 ROAD
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionANDERSON POINT
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River Fire RescueUNKNOWN
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorthwest District, Grand JunctionGFX ASSIST 429
29 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionHELMER GLC
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersSILT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Antlers: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vanadium, Uranium. 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
Rifle MillVanadium, UraniumProducer
Chambers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rifle PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antlers in 2 storm reports in 2012: 1 flood, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012FloodAntlers-County Road 315 was closed to flooding as a result of heavy rainfall.
July 2012Flash FloodAntlers-County Road 315 was closed due to flash flooding as a result of heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Garfield 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
Rifle3.0 miles20
Silt3.8 miles20
New Castle10.3 miles20
Anvil Points10.5 miles23
Rulison11.7 miles13
Chacra15.1 miles20
Battlement Mesa17.3 miles16
Parachute18.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 174052. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.