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Cañon, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the West Conejos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81120. The Survey maps it on the Fox Creek quadrangle.

Cañon within Conejos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Cañon between 1993 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCarson National ForestFLORENTINO
6 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
25 August 1997Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestMAGOTE
20 August 2012Naturalunder an acreSan Luis Valley Field OfficeSAPO
5 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRio Grande National ForestRAILROAD #1
14 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
12 July 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreConejos County Officenot named
10 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use76 acresSan Luis Valley Field OfficeMOGOTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conejos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cañon: 5 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Gold, Silver. 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
MammothGold, SilverPast Producer
ProspectPumiceProspect
UnknownPumiceProducerPumice
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Conejos 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
Las Mesitas2.4 miles18
Mogote3.1 miles18
Fox Creek3.3 miles19
Paisaje4.8 miles18
Ortiz6.0 miles18
San Antonio6.4 miles18
Guadalupe7.3 miles18
Conejos7.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 190894. 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.