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Grant, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80448. It stands on Geneva Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Logan quadrangle. It stands 8,606 feet above sea level.

Grant within Park County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Grant between 1994 and 2020, burning about 283 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
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
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHAWNEE NORTH 1
2 September 2019Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSHAWNEE NORTH 2
2 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
30 August 2016Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestBEN TYLER
26 August 2019Natural70 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestSHAWNEE PEAK
14 August 2018Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestBEST GULCH
1 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPlatte Canyon Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grant: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Guernsey Kenosha Pass MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grant in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013Flash FloodGrant-Continuous heavy rainfall produced flash flooding.
August 2011HailGrant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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
Santa Maria1.7 miles20
Weller2.3 miles18
Webster3.1 miles20
Singleton3.4 miles18
Shawnee6.3 miles18
Highland Park7.5 miles18
Glenisle8.8 miles18
Jefferson9.3 miles26

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 GrantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3115380The 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 204726. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.