Capitol City, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81235. It stands on North Fork Henson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Uncompahgre Peak quadrangle. It stands 9,712 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Capitol City within Hinsdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1903 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1905 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1908 USGS Uncompahgre quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Uncompahgre quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Uncompahgre Peak quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1964 USGS Uncompahgre Peak quadrangle1:24000
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Capitol City (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	NELLY CREEK
10 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	NELLY CREEK
24 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	HENSON CREEK
17 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	HENSON
13 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	HENSON
26 June 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	MINERAL
17 June 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	not named
16 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	NELLIE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hinsdale County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Capitol City (historical): 28 past producers, 23 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 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
Ajax #2	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silica	Unknown
American Flats-Eng. Mtn. Dist.	Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Silver	Producer
Animas Forks Deposits	Tungsten	Occurrence	vein
Capitol City	Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Capitol City Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer	1882, 1954
Champion Shaft	Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Gemstone, Zinc, Manganese	Past Producer	1875, 1877, 1974
Chord	Copper, Lead, Silver	Unknown
Cleveland Group	Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer	1921
Czar	Lead, Copper, Gold, Quartz, Zinc	Past Producer
Dix and Cimarron Chief Groups	Molybdenum, Silver, Gold, Lead, Bismuth	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Hinsdale 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
Henson	4.8 miles	23
Lake City	8.2 miles	20
Cathedral	23.7 miles	20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Capitol City (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5035855	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 203896. 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.