Brimstone Corner, Colorado

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Cedaredge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81413. It stands on Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedaredge quadrangle.

Brimstone Corner within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Cedaredge quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Paonia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Brimstone Corner between 1995 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	8
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Southwest District, Montrose	COLBY
29 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Cedaredge Fire Department	UNKNOWN
20 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	HELLS KIT
16 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	KISER
2 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Southwest District, Montrose	FAIRVIEW
7 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Cedaredge Fire Department	UNKNOWN
6 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cedaredge Fire Department	N/A
25 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cedaredge Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta 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 Brimstone Corner: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Lambert Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Delta 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
Colby	0.4 miles	14
Cedaredge	3.6 miles	14
Eckert	6.6 miles	14
Grand Mesa	7.2 miles	13
Orchard City	7.6 miles	14
Payne	10.2 miles	14
Cory	10.4 miles	14
Austin	10.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 186256. 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.