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Gould, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Walden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80480. It stands on South Fork Michigan River. The Survey maps it on the Gould quadrangle. It stands 8,921 feet above sea level.

Gould within Jackson County

On record in Gould

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Gould between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2 acres 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
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Park Fire RescueUNKNOWN
27 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandNO NAME
15 August 1994Naturalunder an acreJackson Countynot named
7 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandLAFEVRE CREEK
5 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland101 ABANDONED CAMPFIRE
5 July 2001Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandELK CREEK
16 July 2017Natural1.0 acresNorth Park Fire RescueUNKNOWN
1 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Park Fire RescueUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Gould: 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Stelbars Lindland3.9 miles18
Bockman Lumber Camp3.9 miles22
Willey Lumber Camp7.0 miles22
Old Homestead8.6 miles18
Rand9.6 miles18
Larand15.6 miles17
Walden19.6 miles16
Hebron20.7 miles15

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 GouldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5588264The 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 172696. 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.