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Brook Forest, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Central Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80439. It stands on Green Creek. The Survey maps it on the Meridian Hill quadrangle.

Brook Forest within Jefferson County

On record in Brook Forest

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

7 surveys from 19 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

160 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Brook Forest between 1995 and 2020, burning about 314 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined141
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2009Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandRANCH
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
17 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEvergreen Fire/RescueUNKNOWN
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
12 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestMAXWELL FALLS
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoal Creek Canyon Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Brook Forest: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Clay, Copper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Augusta MineCopper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CobaltPast Producer1966
Evergreen Florite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Idealite MineClayPast Producer
Tall Timber No 1FeldsparProducer
Bull Hill ClaimFluorine-FluoriteProducerVein

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Sprucedale1.7 miles21
Elephant Park3.6 miles24
Marshdale3.8 miles21
Rosedale4.2 miles18
Troutdale4.4 miles24
Herzman Mesa4.4 miles21
Hiwan Hills5.0 miles24
Evergreen5.1 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 182521. 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.