Nevadaville, Colorado

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Central City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80427. It lies near Nevada Hill. The Survey maps it on the Central City quadrangle.

Nevadaville within Gilpin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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.

1905 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500
1910 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1912 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1942 USGS Central City quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1944 USGS Central City quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Central City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Nevadaville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	39
Recreation and ceremony	13
Natural	10
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central City Fire Department	N/A
7 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	PICKLE
3 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	MIKE FIRE
12 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	WHITE HORSE
9 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BALD MOUNTAIN
31 August 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Black Hawk Fire Department	N/A
30 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Black Hawk Fire Department	UNKNOWN
28 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	PICKLE GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilpin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 1,017 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1,017 workings within 5 miles of Nevadaville: 854 past producers, 74 occurrences, 65 producers, 20 unknowns. 67 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Silver. 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
Alma-Lincoln Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Uranium	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Enargite, Galena, Polybasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Gold, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Covellite
Anchor	Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Molybdenite, Pyrite, Fluorite
Angeline	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver	Producer	Vein
Atlantic & Brighton	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Underground
Bachus Group	Gold, Lead	Past Producer	Underground
Baltimore-#7391	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	1867
Barita-Hill Mine	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Producer	Galena, Silver
Belfast & Shamrock	Lead, Zinc, Cadmium, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	1863
Black Bear Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Blackhawk District	Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Copper	Producer	COPPER - SILVER - GOLD VEINS, DISSEMINATED

Every working recorded in Gilpin 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
Central City	1.1 miles	27
Russell Gulch	1.2 miles	27
Black Hawk	2.0 miles	29
Wideawake (historical)	3.8 miles	27
Smith Hill	4.1 miles	29
Apex (historical)	5.2 miles	27
Nugget	5.6 miles	27
Perigo (historical)	5.8 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 181473. 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.