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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.

Granite within Chaffee County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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

27 since 1993

Regional 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 ceremony12
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
23 September 1993Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresPike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
22 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficeCLEAR CRK
11 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLOST CANYON
10 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSPRING CREEK
7 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestARLINGTON
5 August 1999Smokingunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCLEAR CREEK
5 August 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
3 August 2006Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestTWIN LAKES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 67 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C H Stenner MillStonePast Producer
Little TroyFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Hope DistrictGold, Silver, LeadPast ProducerLODE (VEIN), PLACER?
MajentaGold, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer
New YearGold, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Tiger LillyGold, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Tom ThumbGold, Silver, LeadPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
UnknownLead, Zinc, SilverOccurrence
UnknownLead, Zinc, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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
Princeton4.2 miles20
Vicksburg6.8 miles17
Riverside8.4 miles20
Rockdale8.6 miles17
Winfield10.2 miles17
Americus11.0 miles20
Buena Vista15.6 miles22
Johnson Village18.1 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 GraniteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5595820The 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.