Mesa Lakes Resort, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Collbran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81643. It sits by Spruce Point. The Survey maps it on the Mesa Lakes quadrangle.

Mesa Lakes Resort within Mesa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1955 USGS Mesa Lakes quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Skyway quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Mesa Lakes Resort between 1992 and 2017, burning about 8 acres in total. 10 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
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	GRIFFITH
4 September 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	CARSON
26 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	LANDS END
20 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	WATERDOG
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	DEEP CREEK
14 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	GRIFFITH LAKE
9 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	GRIFFITH LAKE
21 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	FLOWING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mesa 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 Mesa Lakes Resort: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them 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
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 14109	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 14110	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 14111	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mesa 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
Mesa Lakes	0.1 miles	16
John Held Corner	6.5 miles	16
Mesa	8.5 miles	16
Molina	9.8 miles	15
Cameo	14.0 miles	16
Plateau City	14.2 miles	13
Palisade	14.4 miles	15
Collbran	14.9 miles	13

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 Q122542160

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 197931. 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.