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Black Hollow Junction, Colorado

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fort Collins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80524. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Collins quadrangle.

Black Hollow Junction within Larimer County

On record in Black Hollow Junction

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

419 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 419 fires within 5 miles of Black Hollow Junction between 2003 and 2019, burning about 876 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined354
Smoking25
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural6
Fireworks5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresEaton Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
19 September 2017Smokingunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Black Hollow Junction: 15 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Graphite. 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
Graphite Nos 1 To 7GraphiteProducer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
Boettcher Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Colo Lien CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fort CollinsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
State LeaseStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Adams Transit PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Barker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barker PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cowan Cci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Larimer 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
Arrowhead1.2 miles29
Andersonville1.5 miles29
Sinnard1.5 miles29
Buckingham2.0 miles29
Giddings2.0 miles29
Fort Collins3.0 miles29
Kenyon Corner3.8 miles29
Drakes3.9 miles29

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 Q122553555The 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 177452. 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.