Chester, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Cochetopa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81248. It stands on Jay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

Chester within Saguache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Saguache quadrangle1:100000
2001 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Chester between 1994 and 2018, burning about 6,601 acres in total. 8 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	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
20 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	NELSON CREEK
15 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	BIG BEND
8 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	MARSHALL CREEK
7 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	MARSHAL FIRE
6 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	SLAUGHTERHOUSE
15 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	INDIAN CREEK
15 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	not named
21 June 1996	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	LONGBRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saguache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Chester: 11 past producers, 7 prospects, 6 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Vanadium, Lead. 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
Indian Creek Bog Iron Min	Iron	Occurrence
Indian Creek Limonite Deposit	Iron, Manganese	Occurrence	1915
Little Indian No. 36 Mine	Uranium, Manganese	Past Producer	1955
Marshall Pass No. 5 Mine	Uranium, Vanadium, Lead	Past Producer	1955
Pinnacle Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown	Silver, Zinc, Gold, Lead	Unknown
Unknown	Quartz, Feldspar	Prospect
Unnamed Mine	Feldspar, Uranium	Past Producer	Microcline
Lookout No. 22 Mine	Uranium, Copper, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	1956, 1960
Pitch Mine	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	1955, 1958, 1981

Every working recorded in Saguache 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
Sargents	6.4 miles	13
Bonanza	10.1 miles	17
Sedgewick (historical)	10.4 miles	17
Kerper City	10.5 miles	17
Bonita	10.7 miles	12
Spook City	11.4 miles	12
Alder	13.9 miles	16
Parkville	14.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 189841. 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.