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Jefferson, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80456. It lies near Ohler Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson quadrangle. It stands 9,501 feet above sea level.

Jefferson within Park County

On record in Jefferson

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 676 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined11
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Firearms and explosives use1
Debris and open burning1
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
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestJEFFERSON 2
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestJEFFERSON CREEK
19 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestKENOSHA
9 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCOLORADO TRAIL
3 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
28 August 2001Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestOHLER
27 August 2007Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestDEAD MAN
23 August 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestWEBSTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Jefferson: 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Vanadium, 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
Mac George ProspectUranium, VanadiumPast Producer1956
Tedco ClaimsUranium, VanadiumProspect1956
Donna LouFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Donna Lou, GuernseyFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Stoll PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownGoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownGoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021HailJefferson-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJefferson-no account filed
April 2006HailJefferson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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
Como6.5 miles23
Webster7.0 miles20
Peabodys7.0 miles23
Grant9.3 miles20
Bordenville9.3 miles19
Santa Maria10.2 miles20
Weller10.7 miles18
Singleton11.5 miles18

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 JeffersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3176638The 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 204725. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.