Granite, Colorado
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81211. It lies near Hayden Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Granite quadrangle. It stands 9,012 feet above sea level.
On record in Granite
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 3 records
Commercial Hotellisted 2015
Pine Halllisted 2016- Littlejohn Mine Complexlisted 1978
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1935 USGS Mount Elbert quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1935 USGS Mt Elbert quadrangle1:62500
- 1938 USGS Mount Elbert quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Mount Elbert quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:125000
- 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Granite quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Granite quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
27 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Granite between 1993 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 22 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | CLEAR CRK |
| 11 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | LOST CANYON |
| 10 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | SPRING CREEK |
| 7 August 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | ARLINGTON |
| 5 August 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | CLEAR CREEK |
| 5 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 3 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | TWIN LAKES |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 67 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Granite: 46 past producers, 21 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Manganese, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C H Stenner Mill | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Little Troy | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Hope District | Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | LODE (VEIN), PLACER? | |
| Majenta | Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| New Year | Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Tiger Lilly | Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Tom Thumb | Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Gravel | |
| Unknown | Lead, Zinc, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Lead, Zinc, Silver | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princeton | 4.2 miles | 20 | |
| Vicksburg | 6.8 miles | 17 | |
| Riverside | 8.4 miles | 20 | |
| Rockdale | 8.6 miles | 17 | |
| Winfield | 10.2 miles | 17 | |
| Americus | 11.0 miles | 20 | |
| Buena Vista | 15.6 miles | 22 | |
| Johnson Village | 18.1 miles | 20 |
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 Granite | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5595820 | The 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 180420. 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.














