Balarat, Colorado

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Upper St. Vrain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80540. It stands on Middle Saint Vrain Creek. The Survey maps it on the Raymond quadrangle.

Balarat within Boulder County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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.

1902 USGS Boulder quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Boulder quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Boulder quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Raymond quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Estes Park quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Balarat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,756 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	66
Natural	42
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Fireworks	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
7 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-Boulder District	not named
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lefthand Fire Protection District	N/A
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SLAUGHTERHOUSE
5 September 2013	Natural	1.0 acres	Lefthand Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BUNCE SCHOOL
30 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Allenspark Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
3 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	FAIRVIEW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 182 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 182 workings within 5 miles of Balarat: 97 past producers, 55 occurrences, 28 producers, 1 unknown. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium. 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
Argo	Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Producer	Vein
Argo	Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Copper, Uranium, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Fluorspar, Galena, Sphalerite, Pyrite, Tennantite, Chalcopyrite, Enargite
Beryl Lode	Beryllium, Feldspar, Mica	Producer	Beryl, Feldspar, Mica, Quartz
Buckhorn	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
Buena	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	1879
Buena Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Krennerite, Gold, Sylvanite, Petzite
Buena Vista Mine Nos 1-2-3	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Castle Gulch	Gemstone, Silver	Past Producer
Columbine	Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Copper	Producer	Beryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Malachite, Mica
Copeland Mines	Tungsten, Uranium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Boulder 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
Riverside	2.4 miles	27
Jamestown	3.0 miles	28
Raymond	3.6 miles	27
Bark Ranch	3.7 miles	28
Springdale	4.0 miles	29
Pine Valley	5.1 miles	27
Hidden Lake	5.5 miles	28
Glendale	5.6 miles	29

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.

Wikidata item Q122545721

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 178281. 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.