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Kannah, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Whitewater-Kannah Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81527. It stands on Kannah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitewater quadrangle.

Kannah 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

82 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Kannah between 1994 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 20 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/undetermined45
Natural20
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
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
5 August 1994Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionBANGS RIM
29 August 2000Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionTABEGUACHE
26 August 2018Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionEAST CREEK
14 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Junction Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
13 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLand's End Fire Protection DistrictN/A
11 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrand Junction Field OfficePURPLE SAGE
11 August 1995Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionKANNAH CK
8 July 1997Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionN EAST CRK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Kannah: 11 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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
East CreekFluorine-FluoriteUnknown
Whitewater Crushing and Sampling PUraniumProducer
UnknownClayOccurrence
Unnamed MineClayUnknown
Bradbury PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit 500Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit 512Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

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
Whitewater3.6 miles16
Bridgeport7.9 miles17
Orchard Mesa9.1 miles14
Pear Park9.1 miles12
Fruitvale10.2 miles12
Grand Junction10.2 miles14
Clifton10.5 miles12
Highland Park10.7 miles12

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 Q122595652The 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 185228. 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.