BlockCedar Creek, Colorado
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Montrose census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81401. It lies near Houston Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Cerro Summit quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cerro Summit quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
58 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 20 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 | 25 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park | ASHES |
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Montrose Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 5 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Montrose Fire Protection District | not named |
| 23 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | WATERDOG |
| 14 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | BOSTWICK PARK |
| 11 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | ORCHARD |
| 6 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | SHINN |
| 27 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Southwest District, Montrose | CEDAR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Creek: 4 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 188155. 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.