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Meredith, Colorado

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Aspen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81621. It stands on Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Meredith quadrangle. It stands 7,772 feet above sea level.

Meredith within Pitkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Meredith between 1994 and 2020, burning about 387 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 August 2002Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestFRYING PAN
28 August 2016Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestRUEDI
1 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWhite River National ForestSMITH FIRE
26 July 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestMOLLIE BEE
24 July 2008Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestFRYING PAN
14 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestSMITH CREEK
15 June 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestBURNT TRIANGLE
5 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWhite River National ForestNORTH FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pitkin County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Meredith: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Limestone, General, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Frying Pan ClaimsUraniumOccurrenceTorbernite
MeredithCalciumPast Producer
Porphyry Mountain Mines CoLead, SilverPast Producer
UnknownLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
ReudiGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Pitkin 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Thomasville1.5 miles18
Biglow3.6 miles18
Norrie4.8 miles18
Nast8.4 miles18
Lenado8.5 miles26
Woody Creek10.5 miles19
Aspen12.7 miles26
Snowmass13.7 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on MeredithAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3541412The 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 179732. 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.