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Glen Echo, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Livermore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80512. It stands on Sevenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rustic quadrangle. It stands 7,175 feet above sea level.

Glen Echo within Larimer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Glen Echo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 40 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
Natural40
Recreation and ceremony26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandLAKEFIELD 2
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandPINGREE HILL
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandPARROTT
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandKIM
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLARIMER (COUNTY)
26 September 2005Recreation and ceremony1.9 acresArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSWAMP LADY
22 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandTHREE WAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Glen Echo: 17 occurrences, 10 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Berghof LodeGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Big Mica Beryl ProspectMica, Silver, Lead, Gold, Nickel LateriteOccurrence1966
Cash MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincOccurrenceVein
Chaney-Sims Beryl MineFeldspar, Beryllium, MicaProducer
Chaney-Sims Beryl ProspectsBeryllium, Mica, FeldsparOccurrence1935
Chaney-Suns ProspectsBerylliumOccurrenceBeryl
Little Bobby VeinGold, Copper, LeadOccurrenceVein
Manhattan DistrictGold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, UraniumPast Producer1941
Mayesville DistrictUranium, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Beryllium, Mica, Feldspar, Bismuth, REEPast ProducerBeryl, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Muscovite, Pyrite, Uranophane
Soda Springs GroupUranium, Lead, Bismuth, REE, SilverPast ProducerGalena, Uranophane

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
Rustic0.2 miles17
Indian Meadows1.8 miles17
Manhattan (historical)2.4 miles17
Goodell Corner2.5 miles17
Idylwilde3.7 miles20
Eggers5.2 miles21
Red Feather Lakes7.2 miles17
Kinikinik8.2 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on Glen EchoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5567707The 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 177129. 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.