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Crystola, Colorado

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 80863. It stands on Crystola Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woodland Park quadrangle. It stands 7,979 feet above sea level.

Crystola within Teller County

On record in Crystola

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

259 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 259 fires within 5 miles of Crystola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined114
Recreation and ceremony60
Natural45
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Other causes1

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
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTeller Countynot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestEAGLE LAKE
6 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCAMP #1
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestMISTLETOE
29 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLOY CREEK
28 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forest950
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFalcon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Crystola: 7 producers, 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Manganese. 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
AvengersStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Green Mountain Falls DistrictIron, Manganese, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer1904, 1958
Holly #1Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Iron King MineLead, Gold, Zinc, ManganeseOccurrenceVein
Round TopGoldPast Producer
Round Top, Peacock, Rp LodesSilver, Copper, Gold, RadiumOccurrencePitchblende
UnknownVermiculiteUnknown
Unnamed MineFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumProducerFluorite
Unnamed MineFluorine-Fluorite, ZirconiumPast Producer
NavajoQuartzProducer

Every working recorded in Teller 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
Green Mountain Falls1.5 miles25
Woodland Park3.1 miles25
Divide7.0 miles25
Midland9.8 miles28
Seven Lakes (historical)12.1 miles28
Gillett (historical)13.0 miles28
Florissant13.9 miles30
Rosemont15.2 miles32

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 CrystolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5191456The 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 191202. 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.