Carbonera, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Garfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81630. It lies near South Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Carbonera quadrangle.

Carbonera within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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 Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Carbonera quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

70 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Carbonera between 1993 and 2020, burning about 7,952 acres in total. 67 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
Natural	67
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
7 September 2001	Natural	2.0 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	W FORK
29 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	W SALT CRK
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	WEST
10 September 1994	Natural	4.0 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	DRY CANYON
1 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	FORK
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	HUNGOUT
4 August 1995	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	TRAILER
31 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	BAXTER

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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
Atchee	7.6 miles	12
Una	45.3 miles	16
Parachute	48.0 miles	16
Battlement Mesa	49.5 miles	16
Rulison	54.0 miles	13
Anvil Points	55.1 miles	23
Rifle	62.5 miles	20
Antlers	65.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122594830

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 174149. 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.