Derby Junction, Colorado

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Eagle-Gypsum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80426. It lies near Fargo Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Burns South quadrangle.

Derby Junction within Eagle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Burns South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1980 USGS Vail quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Derby Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 157 acres in total. 24 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
Natural	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	MCCOY
15 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	DERBY
11 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	SUNNYSIDE
1 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	SUNNYSIDE
5 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	BLACK MTN
3 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Colorado River Valley Field Office	BULL GULCH
22 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	FOUR ONE
10 August 1992	Natural	3.0 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	BURNS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eagle 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Burns	1.1 miles	12
Dell	2.8 miles	10
McCoy	10.1 miles	11
Bond	11.6 miles	12
Copper Spur	11.9 miles	11
State Bridge	13.6 miles	12
Eagle	15.3 miles	12
Gypsum	15.5 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q122563235

The 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 175774. 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.