Lamartine, Colorado

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80452. It lies near Alps Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Idaho Springs quadrangle.

Lamartine within Clear Creek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 28 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.

1903 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1957 USGS Idaho Springs quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Lamartine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 13 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/undetermined	19
Recreation and ceremony	14
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	DEVIL'S NOSE
5 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	WEST CHICAGO CREEK
4 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
27 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	UTE CREEK
26 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
24 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clear Creek County Office	CCX 884
17 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BARBOUR FORK
17 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SODA CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 817 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 817 workings within 5 miles of Lamartine: 700 past producers, 51 producers, 44 occurrences, 18 unknowns. 51 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
394357	Silver, Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer
Alma-Lincoln Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Uranium	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Enargite, Galena, Polybasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Gold, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Covellite
Alpha	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer
Angeline	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver	Producer	Vein
Anglo Saxon Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Anglo-Saxon Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Bachus Group	Gold, Lead	Past Producer	Underground
Bellevue-Rochester	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Uranium, Zinc	Past Producer	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Uraninite
Bellview-Hudson	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Producer	Vein
Black Bear Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Freeland	1.5 miles	28
Downieville	2.6 miles	27
Lawson	2.6 miles	29
Dumont	2.6 miles	27
Black Eagle Mill	3.7 miles	28
Empire	4.2 miles	29
Georgetown	4.6 miles	29
Silverdale (historical)	5.0 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 181975. 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.