McGregor, Colorado

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Hayden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80487. It stands on Cheney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milner quadrangle.

McGregor within Routt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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.

1924 USGS Mount Harris quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1924 USGS Mt. Harris quadrangle1:48000
1926 USGS Mount Harris quadrangle1:62500, 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
1971 USGS Milner quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Meeker quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of McGregor between 1993 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 1993	Natural	1.5 acres	Routt County	not named
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Routt County	44
3 August 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Routt County	not named
17 August 1994	Natural	13 acres	Northwest District, Craig	BUTCHER
8 May 1994	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Routt County	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Routt County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McGregor: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bear River Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Thompson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Routt 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
Milner	0.9 miles	19
Bear River (historical)	4.4 miles	19
Mount Harris	5.8 miles	17
Mystic	6.6 miles	18
Steamboat II	7.1 miles	18
Mad Creek	9.8 miles	18
Steamboat Springs	10.8 miles	12
Haybro	10.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 171403. 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.