Graymont, Colorado

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80476. It stands on Quayle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grays Peak quadrangle.

Graymont within Clear Creek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 31 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.

1924 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1926 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1933 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Grays Peak quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Montezuma quadrangle1:62500
1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Graymont between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
28 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	HERMAN GULCH
28 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	BIG ROCK 2
13 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	WEST CHICAGO CREEK
21 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	PARNASSUS
11 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	HERMAN GULCH
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BAKERVILLE
30 July 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	URAD
14 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SILVER PLUME

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 126 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 126 workings within 5 miles of Graymont: 87 past producers, 19 producers, 18 occurrences, 2 prospects. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Baker Mine	Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Baker, Stevens	Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper	Producer	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver
Bard Creek Mine	Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Lead, Silver
Denver Granite and Marble	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Eagles Nest	Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Eagles Nest	Zinc, Gold, Silver, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
East Butte	Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Gold Belt Tunnel	Gold, Silver, Copper	Producer	Vein
Gold Belt, Hamill	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Producer	Lead
Great Grizzley Gulch	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bakerville	0.3 miles	31
Silver Plume	4.0 miles	29
Berthoud Falls	5.3 miles	28
Georgetown	5.5 miles	29
Silverdale (historical)	5.5 miles	29
Empire	7.7 miles	29
Lamartine	10.0 miles	28
Lawson	10.4 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 181852. 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.