Gothic, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Crested Butte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81225. It stands on Copper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gothic quadrangle.

Gothic within Gunnison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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.

1888 USGS Crested Butte quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1889 USGS Crested Butte quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Crested Butte quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1956 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Gothic quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
1968 USGS Montrose quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Gunnison quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Gothic quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Gothic between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 5 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Fireworks	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
5 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	WASHINGTON
30 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	GOTHIC
29 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	GOTHIC
29 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	SLATE
5 July 2019	Fireworks	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
22 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	CRESTED BUTTE MTN.
18 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	WASHINGTON GULCH
18 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	RUSTLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Gothic: 21 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 8 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Aburdix	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Gold, Lead, Silver
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gunnison County Mines Rpr	Gold, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
High & Mighty	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence
Horace Porter Mine	Cobalt, Nickel	Past Producer
Iron Dune, Copper Queen, Silver Bell, Copper Glance, Copper Extension	Silver, Copper, Zinc, Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Silver
Iron King	Barium-Barite, Zinc, Iron	Occurrence
John Baroni Tunnel	Zinc, Lead	Occurrence	Lead
O F Lode	Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer
O. F. Lode	Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Gunnison 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
Elkton	2.3 miles	27
Mount Crested Butte	3.6 miles	26
Pittsburg	3.9 miles	27
Crested Butte	6.2 miles	23
Irwin	8.2 miles	26
Ruby	8.5 miles	26
Crystal	9.1 miles	17
Floresta	10.7 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 188777. 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.