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Coalmont, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Walden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80480. The Survey maps it on the Coalmont quadrangle. It stands 8,215 feet above sea level.

Coalmont within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Coalmont between 1992 and 2018, burning about 34 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
18 September 1994Natural4.0 acresJackson Countynot named
31 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandGRIZZLY CG #1
21 August 2006Natural11 acresNorthwest District, CraigHIGBY
18 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNorth Park Fire RescueUNKNOWN
17 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Park Fire RescueUNKNOWN
16 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
10 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigRICH
17 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Coalmont: 5 unknowns, 3 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coalmont in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Coalmont-A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindCoalmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Hebron3.1 miles15
Larand9.0 miles17
Walden14.5 miles16
Rand15.8 miles18
Brownlee17.5 miles17
Fort Boettcher17.5 miles25
Old Homestead18.0 miles18
Stelbars Lindland20.1 miles18

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on CoalmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3541479The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 172604. 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.