BlockFort Boettcher, Colorado
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Walden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80480. It stands on Ute Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boettcher Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Hahns Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1913 USGS Hahns Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Boettcher Lake quadrangle1:24000, 8 printings
- 1956 USGS Pearl quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Walden quadrangle1:100000
- 2000 USGS Boettcher Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fort Boettcher between 2004 and 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. 4 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 | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BEAR LAKE |
| 2 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | SHEEP MNT |
| 16 July 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | FS640 FA |
| 14 July 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | SHEEP |
| 13 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | SHEEP MTN |
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fort Boettcher: 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, PGE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Creek | Copper, PGE | Occurrence | ||
| Fred Brands Ranch | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Fred Brands Ranch | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Spring #1 | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Spring #1 | Uranium | Occurrence |
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.
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 Q122548737 | 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 170393. 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.