McKenzie Junction, Colorado
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Westcliffe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81253. It stands on Silver Park Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hardscrabble Mountain quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1892 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Hardscrabble Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Canon City quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Pueblo quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Hardscrabble Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
54 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of McKenzie Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,563 acres in total. 33 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 | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | 336 |
| 8 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Royal Gorge Field Office | JEAN BROWN |
| 3 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Wetmore Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 2 September 2009 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | HOLT MTN |
| 19 September 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | WILLOW |
| 1 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wet Mountain Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 31 August 2009 | Natural | 33 acres | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | JOHNSON GULCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of McKenzie Junction: 10 past producers, 4 producers, 3 prospects, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floyd Watters Ranch | Uranium, Vanadium, Radium, Thorium, REE, Lead | Past Producer | 1951, 1953 | |
| Franklin Mine | Thorium, REE, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Bornite, Galena, Thorite | |
| Haputa Ranch | Gold, Thorium, REE, Barium-Barite, Lead | Prospect | 1950 | |
| Hoza Ranch | Zinc | Past Producer | Sphalerite | |
| Oak Creek (Ilse) District | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Uranium, Gold | Past Producer | Cerussite, Phosgenite | |
| Sewell Ranch | REE, Thorium | Prospect | 1952 | |
| Sewell Ranch | Thorium, Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Terrible Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | 1879, 1884, 1943 | |
| Unknown | Silver | Occurrence | Silver | |
| Wild Girl and High Kicker Claims | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1887, 1893 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Spring | 2.9 miles | 24 | |
| Greenwood | 5.7 miles | 23 | |
| Wetmore | 7.6 miles | 23 | |
| Querida | 8.1 miles | 26 | |
| Fairview | 8.2 miles | 23 | |
| Rosita | 9.0 miles | 24 | |
| Silver Cliff | 13.7 miles | 23 | |
| San Isabel | 14.2 miles | 17 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122562886 | The 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 192215. 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.











