Belden, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Minturn-Red Cliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81649. It stands on Peterson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Minturn quadrangle.

Belden within Eagle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1934 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1950 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Vail quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Belden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 11 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
Recreation and ceremony	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	11
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	CLUTTER GARDEN
29 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24 acres	White River National Forest	TWO ELK
26 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	CROSS CREEK FIRE
19 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	MERIDIAN
12 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	HOMESTAKE
11 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	TWO ELK
10 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	TIGIWON
1 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	CROSS CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eagle County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Belden: 17 past producers, 8 producers, 7 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, 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	Recorded
Eagle	Iron, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Limonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Siderite, Turgite
Eagle	Arsenic	Occurrence
Eagle	Zinc, Copper, Lead	Producer	Bornite, Chalcanthite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Lead, Tetrahedrite
Eagle #2	Aluminum	Occurrence
Eagle Mine	Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold, Manganese	Past Producer	1879
Gilman (Red Cliff) District	Lead, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	Anglesite, Chalcopyrite, Cerargyrite, Cerussite, Galena, Hemimorphite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Smithsonite
Homestake Creek	Pumice	Past Producer
Iron Mask	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Manganese, Lead	Producer	Replacement
Liberty	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Occurrence
Little Spring	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Eagle 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
Gilman	0.6 miles	21
Red Cliff	1.3 miles	21
Astor City (historical)	2.1 miles	21
Minturn	4.8 miles	21
Pando	5.5 miles	33
Mid Vail	6.2 miles	21
Eagles Nest	6.4 miles	21
Dowds Junction	6.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 176127. 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.