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Mid Vail, Colorado

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Minturn-Red Cliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81657. It lies near Ptarmigan Point. The Survey maps it on the Red Cliff quadrangle.

Mid Vail within Eagle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Mid Vail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 4 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Recreation and ceremony30
Natural18
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVail Fire and Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN
9 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestRADIO TOWER
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestGAME CREEK
5 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestDAVOS
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresWhite River National ForestTWO ELK
22 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreVail Fire and Emergency ServicesUNKNOWN
21 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWhite River National ForestMM 183
17 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestCASCADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eagle County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mid Vail: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Magnesite, Stone, Gold. 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
UnknownMagnesite, StonePast Producer
Ute Park, High Line, Blue JayGoldOccurrencePlacer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
New Jersey Zinc PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Eagle 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
Eagles Nest1.0 miles21
Vail1.8 miles21
West Vail2.7 miles19
Minturn3.9 miles21
Bighorn4.0 miles21
Dowds Junction4.3 miles21
Astor City (historical)5.0 miles21
Gilman5.8 miles21

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 Q122572392The 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 176156. 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.