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Cedar Point, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Agate census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80101. The Survey maps it on the River Bend quadrangle.

Cedar Point within Elbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

14 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Point between 2011 and 2017, burning about 13 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAgate Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
19 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAgate Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersAGATE
26 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLIMON
21 July 2017Naturalunder an acreAgate Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
4 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAgate Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
20 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAgate Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
12 May 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAgate Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Point: 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
DalrympleClayProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Elbert County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Point in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996HailCedar Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elbert 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
Agate8.9 miles17
Matheson13.2 miles15
Simla18.0 miles14
Bijou18.2 miles14
Beck Sand Draw Crossing24.0 miles12
Fondis26.8 miles11
Kutch30.0 miles13
Kiowa31.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 203756. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.