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John Held Corner, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Collbran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81643. The Survey maps it on the Mesa quadrangle.

John Held Corner within Mesa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of John Held Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. 49 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
Natural49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionKINGS GULCH
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionBARNEY HIL
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionATWELL GULCH
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionKING GULCH
30 September 2009Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionTSUNAMI
21 September 2000Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionSHIRES GLC
20 September 2010Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionBEEHIVE
14 September 2009Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionPLATEAU KNOB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of John Held Corner: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Quartz, Feldspar, Mica, Tin. 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
Molina DepositQuartz, Feldspar, Mica, TinUnknown

Every working recorded in Mesa 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
Mesa2.1 miles16
Molina5.4 miles15
Mesa Lakes6.4 miles16
Mesa Lakes Resort6.5 miles16
Cameo9.8 miles16
Akin10.6 miles15
Plateau City10.7 miles13
Palisade11.5 miles15

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 Q122550266The 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 174462. 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.