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Kenyon Corner, Colorado

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fort Collins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80524. The Survey maps it on the Wellington quadrangle.

Kenyon Corner within Larimer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

317 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 317 fires within 5 miles of Kenyon Corner between 2003 and 2019, burning about 544 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined259
Equipment and vehicle use20
Smoking16
Natural7
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
3 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePoudre Fire AuthorityUNKNOWN
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLAPORTE
23 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFORT COLLINS
22 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 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Kenyon Corner: 14 producers, 1 past producer. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Clay. 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
Graphite Nos 1 To 7GraphiteProducer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
Boettcher Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Colo Lien CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
State LeaseStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Adams Transit PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Barker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barker PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cowan Cci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cowan Cci PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Andersonville3.3 miles29
Buckingham3.4 miles29
Meyers Corner3.4 miles29
Giddings3.5 miles29
Laporte3.6 miles28
Black Hollow Junction3.8 miles29
Fort Collins3.8 miles29
Mountain View4.4 miles31

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 Q122555858The 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 177212. 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.