Baldwin, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Gunnison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81230. It stands on Castle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Axtell quadrangle.

Baldwin within Gunnison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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.

1888 USGS Anthracite quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Anthracite quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Anthracite quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1894 USGS Anthracite quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Mount Axtell quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Paonia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Mount Axtell quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin between 1993 and 2016, burning about 1 acre in total. 2 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	CARBON
28 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	not named
3 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
14 June 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	CARBON CREEK
12 June 2016	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	PRICE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Baldwin: 20 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Baldwin Star Mine	Lead, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Black Diamond	Manganese	Past Producer
Carbon Creek	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Fan	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Unknown
Great Western	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Kansas City Star	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
New Baldwin	Lead, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Ohio Creek Mine #2	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Sunbeam	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Superior	Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gunnison 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
Floresta	6.7 miles	26
Ruby	7.5 miles	26
Crested Butte	8.0 miles	23
Irwin	8.0 miles	26
Mount Crested Butte	10.8 miles	26
Almont	12.7 miles	15
Pittsburg	13.0 miles	27
Elkton	13.8 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 186670. 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.