Floresta, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Somerset census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81434. The Survey maps it on the Mount Axtell quadrangle.

Floresta within Gunnison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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.

1888 USGS Anthracite quadrangle1:62500
1889 USGS Anthracite quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Anthracite quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1894 USGS Anthracite quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Mount Axtell quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Paonia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Mount Axtell quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Floresta between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	OHIO
20 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crested Butte Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
13 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	IRWIN
6 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
6 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	KEBLER
5 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
17 July 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	OHIO PASS
13 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	SPLAINS GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Floresta: 11 unknowns, 9 occurrences, 9 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Silver, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Crested Butte	Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Producer
Daisy	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Tetrahedrite
Forest Queen and 8 Claims	Silver, Lead	Producer	Lead, Silver
Jimmy, Keystone, Contact, Eclipse, My Boys, Union	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Occurrence
Keystone	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper	Producer
Keystone Mine	Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Producer
Keystone Mine	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Micawber	Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Producer	Copper, Lead, Silver
Micawber	Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer
Mt. Emmons/Crested Butte	Molybdenum, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead	Past Producer	1976

Every working recorded in Gunnison 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
Ruby	2.2 miles	26
Irwin	2.6 miles	26
Baldwin	6.7 miles	26
Crested Butte	7.4 miles	23
Pittsburg	8.3 miles	27
Mount Crested Butte	9.3 miles	26
Elkton	9.6 miles	27
Gothic	10.7 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 186679. 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.