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Fords Mountaindale Ranch, Colorado

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Penrose-Portland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80926. It lies near Red Creek Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mount Pittsburg quadrangle.

Fords Mountaindale Ranch within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 33 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Fords Mountaindale Ranch between 1994 and 2020, burning about 13,448 acres in total. 20 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
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
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
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCOLORADO SPRINGS
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRye Fire Protection DepartmentUNKNOWN
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwest Highway 115 Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
22 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Canon City Districtnot named
21 August 2003Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeTABLE
19 August 1995Naturalunder an acreEl Paso Countynot named
16 August 1994Naturalunder an acreEl Paso Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fords Mountaindale Ranch: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica, Feldspar. 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
UnknownMica, FeldsparPast Producer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
Unnamed Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Beaver Creek OccurrenceUraniumOccurrence
Folbre #2UraniumUnknown
Folbre #2 ClaimUraniumOccurrence
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSandstone
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSand and Gravel

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
Adelaide8.1 miles21
Penrose12.9 miles24
Portland15.1 miles24
Concrete15.3 miles23
Park Center16.1 miles24
Florence17.2 miles24
Orchard Park17.4 miles24
East Canon17.4 miles24

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 Q122565355The 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 193636. 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.