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Ironton, 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 Corkscrew Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Ironton quadrangle. It stands 9,800 feet above sea level.

Ironton 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Ironton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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
3 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsANGEL
8 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsANGEL
20 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsSILVER GULCH
11 August 1992Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forestsnot named
28 July 2019Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsHENDRICK GULCH
21 July 2018Naturalunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsLEWIS CREEK
2 July 2013Natural1.0 acresGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsHALF MOON
19 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National ForestsANGEL CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouray County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 463 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 463 workings within 5 miles of Ironton: 305 past producers, 57 unknowns, 52 occurrences, 44 producers. 45 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
Barnes TunSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
BenitoiteGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Bill Young GroupSilver, Zinc, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Black DiamondLead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceTetrahedrite
Bonanza KingSilver, Gold, CopperProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Camp Bird MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer1896, 1900
Carbon LakeGold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, CopperUnknown

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
Guston (historical)1.2 miles28
Camp Bird3.7 miles28
Thistledown4.3 miles28
Sneffels (historical)4.7 miles28
Ouray6.2 miles26
Portland10.3 miles26
Ridgway15.8 miles16
Dallas17.6 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 IrontonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6073275The 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 187227. 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.