BlockMount Pearl, Colorado
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kit Carson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80825. The Survey maps it on the Big Spring quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1891 USGS Kit Carson quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Kit Carson quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Cheyenne Wells quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pearl between 1995 and 2016, burning about 251 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 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | 40 acres | Cheyenne County | not named |
| 25 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 20 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | West Cheyenne Fire Protection District (Kit Carson Volunteer Fire Department) | UNKNOWN |
| 25 August 1995 | Natural | 200 acres | Cheyenne County | not named |
| 21 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 1 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | West Cheyenne Fire Protection District (Kit Carson Volunteer Fire Department) | UNKNOWN |
| 14 October 2016 | Natural | 5.0 acres | West Cheyenne Fire Protection District (Kit Carson Volunteer Fire Department) | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Big Spring | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Kit Carson | 13.9 miles | 13 | |
| Wild Horse | 15.1 miles | 12 | |
| Firstview | 16.7 miles | 13 | |
| Aroya | 19.3 miles | 12 | |
| Old Wells | 24.9 miles | 14 | |
| Cheyenne Wells | 25.1 miles | 14 | |
| Arapahoe | 33.1 miles | 14 |
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 Q122591685 | 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 195239. 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.