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Newett, Colorado

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80449. It lies near Chubb Park. The Survey maps it on the Castle Rock Gulch quadrangle.

Newett within Chaffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Newett between 1992 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 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
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
14 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestKAUFMAN FIRE
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestCASTLE PARK
6 August 2001Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestFAT FIRE
6 August 2001Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestBEEHIVE
21 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersBUENA VISTA
21 August 2011Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestKAUFMAN
16 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLEN HARDY
11 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Newett: 8 occurrences, 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, REE, Uranium, REE, REE, Bismuth. 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
Abe Lincoln No. 2VermiculiteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Clora May MineFeldspar, REE, Bismuth, Beryllium, Uranium, ThoriumPast ProducerAllanite, Beryl, Bismutite, Euxenite, Xenotime
Iron Chest MineLead, ZincOccurrence1947
Luella PegmatiteFeldspar, REE, Bismuth, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1946
Mizpah Gold MineLead, Zinc, Gold, SilverOccurrenceGalena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite
Northern View, Rose of SharonFeldspar, BismuthProducerFeldspar
Trout Creek Pass AreaNiobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE, FeldsparProducerEuxenite, Monazite
Carson Mining and DevelopmentUraniumOccurrence
Carson Mining and DevelopmentUraniumUnknown
Crystal No. 8REEOccurrenceAllanite, Euxenite

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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
Johnson Village7.3 miles20
Buena Vista7.7 miles22
Futurity9.2 miles15
Nathrop (historical)9.4 miles17
Americus9.7 miles20
Riverside11.5 miles20
Centerville12.2 miles17
Swan (historical)13.2 miles17

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 Q122590638The 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 191349. 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.