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Guston, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ouray census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81427. It lies near Champion Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Ironton quadrangle. It stands 10,847 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Guston within Ouray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Guston (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsSILVER GULCH
28 July 2019Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsHENDRICK GULCH
2 July 2013Natural1.0 acresGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsHALF MOON
1 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsRICHMOND
29 June 1998Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsSENATOR GULCH
28 June 1994Smokingunder an acreSan Juan National ForestMULESHOE
31 May 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsSILVER BASIN
24 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOuray CountyCAMP BIRD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouray County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 465 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 465 workings within 5 miles of Guston (historical): 300 past producers, 69 unknowns, 52 occurrences, 39 producers. 40 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AcapulcaBismuth, Lead, Silver, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
Andrus MineGold, Copper, Zinc, Lead, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Anglo-SaxonTungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, SilverProspect
Atlanta TunnelGold, Lead, Thorium, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Barnes TunSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
BenitoiteGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Black BearLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Black DiamondLead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceTetrahedrite
Bonanza KingSilver, Gold, CopperProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
BostonLead, Copper, Silver, Gold, ZincProducer

Every working recorded in Ouray 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
Ironton1.2 miles28
Camp Bird4.3 miles28
Sneffels (historical)5.1 miles28
Thistledown5.4 miles28
Ouray7.4 miles26
Portland11.4 miles26
Ridgway16.7 miles16
Dallas18.6 miles21

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 Guston (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q105571929The 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 187238. 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.