Kirkland, Colorado

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.

• 1904 USGS Niwot quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1950 USGS Longmont quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Longmont quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Greeley quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Longmont quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1984 USGS Estes Park quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Kirkland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 238 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 19 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Liberty
• Rinn
• Jessum
• Harney
• Idaho Creek
• Evanston

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Kirkland: 7 producers, 5 occurrences, 3 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Weld County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 178359. 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.