Fort Julesburg, Colorado

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the South Sedgwick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80737. The Survey maps it on the Julesburg quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fort Julesburg within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Julesburg quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Julesburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fort Julesburg (historical) between 1994 and 2017, burning about 1,391 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
8 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,300 acres	Sedgwick County	MILE MARKER 173
14 May 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sedgwick Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
27 April 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sedgwick County	not named
15 April 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Sedgwick County	not named
25 November 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Sedgwick County	not named
13 November 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	JULESBURG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fort Julesburg (historical): 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Ovid Limekiln	Iron	Producer
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Ovid	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sedgwick 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
Fort Sedgwick (historical)	1.2 miles	12
Ovid	2.0 miles	12
Julesburg	5.9 miles	10
Sedgwick	8.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 182705. 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.