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Concrete, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Penrose-Portland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81240. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pierce Gulch quadrangle.

Concrete within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

52 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Concrete between 1995 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2

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
24 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePenrose Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
28 August 2016Naturalunder an acrePenrose Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
18 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePenrose Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
16 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePenrose Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
12 August 2016Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresPenrose Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresColorado State Forest Service-Canon City Districtnot named
27 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresPenrose Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Concrete: 9 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Gold, 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
Artesian Well #22GeothermalProducer
UnknownLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand and Gravel
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
Beaver CreekClayProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Portland Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Portland1.5 miles24
Penrose3.2 miles24
Florence6.4 miles24
Coal Creek8.1 miles23
Williamsburg8.2 miles24
Rockvale8.9 miles23
Sikes9.5 miles25
Brookside10.5 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 193883. 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.