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Bridgeport, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Whitewater-Kannah Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81527. It lies near Dominguez Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Triangle Mesa quadrangle.

Bridgeport within Mesa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. 17 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
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1993Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionHWY 50
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionHORSEY
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWHITEWATER
9 August 2020Naturalunder an acreGrand Junction Field OfficeDOMINGUEZ
30 August 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionLONG MESA
30 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNorthwest District, Grand JunctionJACK FLAT
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionMERIDIAN 2
26 August 2018Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionKING CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bridgeport: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Unnamed MineClayUnknown
Unnamed MineUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeport in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2017Heavy RainBridgeport-Heavy rainfall resulted in some water that flowed over Highway 50 near the Delta-Mesa County line. Radar estimated between 0.50 and 1.0 inches of rainfall in that area.
July 2014Flash FloodBridgeport-Several areas of flash flooding occurred along and over Highway 141 southwest of Whitewater which prompted the closing of the highway for several hours.
July 2013Flash FloodBridgeport-Water was flowing several inches deep across Highway 50 near the Delta and Mesa County line as the result of heavy rainfall from a passing thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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
Kannah7.9 miles16
Whitewater11.3 miles16
Pear Park16.8 miles12
Orchard Mesa16.9 miles14
Clifton18.0 miles12
Fruitvale18.0 miles12
Grand Junction18.1 miles14
Bridges Switch18.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 185349. 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.