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Horsetooth Heights, Colorado

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Loveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80526. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horsetooth Reservoir quadrangle.

Horsetooth Heights within Larimer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

233 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Horsetooth Heights between 2005 and 2020, burning about 783 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined189
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural8
Debris and open burning6
Smoking6
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Horsetooth Heights: 12 occurrences, 11 producers, 5 past producers, 1 unknown. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Stone, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Gold, Silver. 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
Big Four MineSilver, GoldProducerVein
BuckhornSilicaPast Producer
Estes Belle and Hilltop ClaimsBerylliumProducer
Mason MineSilver, Tungsten, GoldProducerVein
Masonville DistrictGold, Silver, Tungsten, Copper, NickelProducer1900, 1955
UnknownClayOccurrence
Prospect PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Carter MineGold, Silver, TungstenProducerVein
Carter TunnelTungsten, GoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer 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
Masonville3.2 miles30
Trilby Corner4.1 miles28
McClellands4.2 miles29
Omega4.6 miles29
Drakes5.2 miles29
Harmony6.0 miles29
Mountain View6.2 miles31
Redmond6.3 miles28

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 Q122591419The 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 177388. 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.