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Bragdon, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Pueblo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81008. It lies near Beacon Hill. The Survey maps it on the Pinon quadrangle.

Bragdon within Pueblo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

25 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bragdon between 2011 and 2018, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony2

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
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersPUEBLO
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPueblo Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
6 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersPUEBLO
3 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersPUEBLO
19 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePueblo Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
13 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersPUEBLO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pueblo 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 Bragdon: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Overton-Steele Hollow Iron DepositsIronPast Producer1900
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Pueblo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bragdon in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2000Thunderstorm WindBragdon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pueblo 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
Piñon2.2 miles20
Wild Horse5.9 miles28
Eden5.9 miles24
Pueblo West6.9 miles28
Fearnowville8.9 miles24
Pueblo10.2 miles24
Goodnight10.2 miles28
Baxter10.8 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 193902. 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.