Marigold, Colorado

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Cripple Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80860. It stands on Cripple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cripple Creek South quadrangle.

Marigold within Teller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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.

1894 USGS Pikes Peak quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Pikes Peak quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1951 USGS Cripple Creek South quadrangle1:24000, 9 printings
1954 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Pikes Peak quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Marigold between 1992 and 2020, burning about 841 acres in total. 30 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
Natural	30
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	FOUR MILE
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	PONY GULCH
3 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	HIGH PARK
2 August 1992	Natural	5.0 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	HIGH PARK
17 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Front Range District Office	MILSAP
7 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	SAND GULCH
6 July 2005	Natural	31 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	OBLONG
4 July 2017	Natural	under an acre	Front Range District Office	CARLIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Marigold: 25 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver. 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
C.K. & N. Lode, El Paso, Moon Anchor	Gold, Silver, Tellurium	Producer	Vein
Gedney Titanium	Titanium	Past Producer
Mary Nevin Mine & Mill	Gold, Silver	Producer
Blue Nugget	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Fluorite
Blue Nugget	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Abril 8	Uranium	Producer	Uraninite
Sand Creek Claims	Uranium	Past Producer	Coffinite, Uraninite
School Section	Uranium	Occurrence
School Section Claim	Uranium	Occurrence	Coffinite, Uraninite
August Flower	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Teller 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
Mound City (historical)	5.0 miles	26
Beacon Hill	5.2 miles	26
Victor	5.5 miles	26
Elkton	5.6 miles	26
Hollywood	5.7 miles	26
Anaconda (historical)	5.8 miles	26
Cripple Creek	6.3 miles	26
Goldfield	6.4 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 191259. 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.