Camden, Colorado

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Brush census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80723. The Survey maps it on the Brush East quadrangle.

Camden within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1951 USGS Brush East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Brush East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Fort Morgan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

54 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Camden between 2004 and 2019, burning about 1,269 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	47
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
11 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Brush Fire Department	UNKNOWN
31 August 2004	Natural	1,000 acres	Fort Collins Interagency Dispatch Center	SAGE BRUSH
16 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Brush Fire Department	UNKNOWN
1 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Morgan County	CHAPMAN
4 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Brush Fire Department	UNKNOWN
25 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Brush Fire Department	UNKNOWN
24 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Brush Fire Department	UNKNOWN
18 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hillrose-Snyder Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Camden: 4 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sandpit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand

Every working recorded in Morgan 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
Hillrose	2.1 miles	11
Snyder	3.0 miles	11
Cooper	4.0 miles	11
Brush	5.0 miles	11
Union	5.6 miles	8
Nelson	6.9 miles	11
Balzac	8.2 miles	10
Dodd	8.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 182929. 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.