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Eureka, Colorado

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Silverton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81433. It stands on South Fork Animas River. The Survey maps it on the Handies Peak quadrangle. It stands 9,862 feet above sea level.

Eureka within San Juan County

On record in Eureka

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

12 surveys from 30 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

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Eureka between 1994 and 2008, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 July 2008Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
29 July 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseMIDDLETON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 275 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 275 workings within 5 miles of Eureka: 117 past producers, 57 occurrences, 51 producers, 46 unknowns. 52 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Zinc, Lead, Tungsten. 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
AcapulcaBismuth, Lead, Silver, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
BenitoiteGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Black DiamondLead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceTetrahedrite
Black Hawk MineUraniumUnknown
Bon Homme TunnelCopper, Silver, Lead, Bismuth, ZincPast Producer1885, 1974
Buffalo BoyLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, GoldProspect
Burrows - Little IolaGold, Silver, Zinc, LeadProducerVein
DewittZinc, Silver, Copper, LeadProducer
Endless ChainLimestone, Dimension, GoldPast Producer
Eureka District-ColoradoLead, Gold, Silver, Copper, ZincProducerHYDROTHERMAL VEIN

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka in 2 storm reports in 2021: 2 debris flow. 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
July 2021Debris FlowEureka$10,000Numerous mudslides occurred in remote areas of San Juan County, most notably at Stony Pass near Pole Creek. Backcountry roads were closed due to cleanup operations.
July 2021Debris FlowEureka-A significant debris flow of mud, rocks and branches occurred on Cinnamon Pass in the San Juan Mountains. The exact time of the slide is unknown.

Every storm recorded in San Juan 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
Middleton1.7 miles32
Howardsville3.4 miles32
Animas Forks (historical)3.6 miles30
Gladstone (historical)4.6 miles28
Silverton7.0 miles30
Chattanooga (historical)8.5 miles30
Beartown (historical)11.3 miles26
Needleton17.8 miles25

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 EurekaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12198672The 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 187402. 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.