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Glen Comfort, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Estes Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80515. It lies near Dark Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Glen Haven quadrangle.

Glen Comfort within Larimer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Glen Comfort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined111
Natural56
Recreation and ceremony14
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSOULSHINE
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 September 2000Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandPIPER MEADOWS
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2000Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandWALTONIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glen Comfort: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Tantalum. 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
Bashor MineFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Giant Crystal MineBeryllium, MicaPast Producer1960
Mt Olympia MineMica, TantalumPast Producer
Greeno Nos 1-20MicaPast Producer
Mt. OlympiaMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer 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
Loveland Heights1.3 miles23
Olympus Heights2.6 miles23
Glen Haven4.2 miles23
Waltonia4.3 miles23
Estes Park4.5 miles30
Beaver Point5.9 miles31
Drake5.9 miles23
Midway6.7 miles23

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 Q122543854The 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 177640. 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.