Mount Harris, Colorado

17 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 Grassy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Harris quadrangle.

Mount Harris within Routt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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 Mount Harris quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Meeker quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mount Harris between 1994 and 2013, burning about 1,640 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Northwest District, Craig	GUNRANGE
17 August 1994	Natural	13 acres	Northwest District, Craig	BUTCHER
30 July 1995	Natural	2.0 acres	Routt County	not named
21 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Yampa Valley Regional Airport	UNKNOWN
17 July 1994	Natural	800 acres	Routt County	not named
16 July 1994	Natural	800 acres	Routt County	not named
16 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mount Harris: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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	Recorded
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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
Bear River (historical)	1.5 miles	19
McGregor	5.8 miles	19
Hayden	6.0 miles	17
Milner	6.6 miles	19
Mystic	9.9 miles	18
Elkhead	11.9 miles	21
Steamboat II	12.7 miles	18
Dunckley	12.9 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 171343. 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.