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Cleora, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Salida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81201. It lies near Loggie Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Salida East quadrangle.

Cleora within Chaffee County

On record in Cleora

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

94 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Cleora between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined54
Natural19
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeDEAD HORSE
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalida Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
31 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
29 August 2002Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLONG FELLOW
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Arkansas Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Cleora: 33 past producers, 21 occurrences, 7 producers, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Gold, Tungsten, Copper. 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
Cleora DistrictCopper, Tungsten, GoldPast Producer1870
Grand View MineCopper, Tungsten, GoldPast Producer1890, 1905
MarvelMicaOccurrenceMica
Polly No 4Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
R D H MillLead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Rogers WellsvilleLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
True Blue 1, Oliver 1 ClaimsUraniumPast Producer
UnknownMarble, DimensionOccurrenceMetamorphic
Wellsville Warm SpringGeothermalUnknown
Black Beauty DepositManganese, IronOccurrenceLimonite, Pyrolusite, Rhodonite, Siderite

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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
Salida2.1 miles17
Smeltertown3.3 miles19
Belleview5.2 miles19
Poncha Springs5.7 miles19
Browns Canon8.3 miles19
Turret8.8 miles15
Shirley (historical)10.4 miles19
Maysville11.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 191490. 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.