Cimarron, Colorado

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 8 records

• D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestlelisted 1976
• Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Box Outfit Car No. 04414listed 2009
• Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Boxcar No. 3132listed 2009
• Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Locomotive No. 278 and Tenderlisted 2009
• Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Stock Car No. 5620listed 2010
• Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Stock Car No. 5679Dlisted 2010
• Rio Grande Southern Railroad Derrick Carlisted 2010
• Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Caboose No. 0577listed 2009

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.

• 1909 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:125000
• 1911 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Cimarron quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 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
• 2001 USGS Cimarron quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cimarron between 1993 and 2020, burning about 455 acres in total. 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Montrose County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cimarron: 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Montrose County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 188168. 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.