Lay, Colorado

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 1 record

• Lay Schoollisted 2013

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.

• 1916 USGS Craig quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Lay quadrangle1:24000
• 1979 USGS Craig quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Lay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,263 acres in total. 65 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.

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:

• Juniper Hot Springs

Every fire recorded in Moffat County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Lay: 17 unknowns, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Moffat 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 171247. 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.