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Green Mountain Village, Colorado

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Northeast Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80228. The Survey maps it on the Morrison quadrangle.

Green Mountain Village within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

1,105 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,105 fires within 5 miles of Green Mountain Village between 2003 and 2020, burning about 5,648 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 40 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined882
Equipment and vehicle use51
Arson/incendiarism40
Smoking39
Natural20
Fireworks17
Recreation and ceremony17
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Debris and open burning14
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWest Metro Fire RescueUNKNOWN
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePleasant View Fire DepartmentN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Green Mountain Village: 34 occurrences, 25 producers, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Four Corners MineUranium, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast Producer1954, 1955, 1960
Linda 1&2 MineGoldOccurrence
Soda Lakes, Soda SpringsSodiumProducer
UnknownDolomiteOccurrenceDolomite
Unnamed Fe MineIronPast Producer1885
Mann RanchUranium, MolybdenumPast Producer1955, 1961
Morrison QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schmidt Constr IncSilicaProducer
UnknownSilicaOccurrence
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Green Mountain0.7 miles25
College West Estates1.5 miles25
Carmody Estates1.7 miles20
Mountain View Estates2.1 miles25
Edgemont2.3 miles25
Green Gables2.3 miles20
Daniels Garden2.6 miles25
Lakewood2.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122555348The 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 182153. 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.