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La Foret, Colorado

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Black Forest-Peyton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80908. It stands on Burgess River. The Survey maps it on the Black Forest quadrangle. It stands 7,231 feet above sea level.

La Foret within El Paso County

On record in La Foret

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

241 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of La Foret between 1993 and 2020, burning about 16,654 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined207
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado Springs Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersCOLORADO SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of La Foret: 10 producers, 2 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Iron, Manganese. 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
Burgess ClaimUranium, Iron, ManganeseOccurrence1951
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
Black Forest0.8 miles29
Gleneagle6.3 miles28
Falcon7.7 miles27
Shirley8.1 miles30
Pikeview8.7 miles32
Eastonville8.8 miles27
Woodmoor9.5 miles28
Elsmere10.0 miles32

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 La ForetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23018090The 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 193292. 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.