Graft, Colorado

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.

• 1891 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1968 USGS La Junta quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Pritchett NW quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Graft between 1994 and 1995, burning about 901 acres in total. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Prichett
• Pritchett
• Brookfield (historical)
• Utleyville

Every fire recorded in Baca County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 196160. 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.