Northgate, Colorado
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Walden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80434. It lies near North Park. The Survey maps it on the Northgate quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 21 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.
- 1950 USGS Northgate quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1952 USGS Northgate quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Craig quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Cowdrey quadrangle1:62500, 2 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
- 1981 USGS Walden quadrangle1:100000
- 2000 USGS Northgate quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Northgate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | SENTINAL |
| 24 July 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | CAMPFIRE |
| 20 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | PINKHAM |
| 9 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Northwest District, Craig | CROUCH |
| 16 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 8 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Jackson County | TRICK |
| 13 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | WALDEN |
| 10 April 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Jackson County | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Northgate: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum, Silica, Manganese, Calcium, Calcium, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fluorine Vein Properties | Fluorine-Fluorite, Silica, Manganese, Calcium | Past Producer | 1925, 1943 | |
| Fluorspar Vein Properties | Fluorine-Fluorite, Calcium, Silica | Past Producer | 1900, 1922 | |
| Fluorspar | Molybdenum | Occurrence | Fluorite, Ilsemannite | |
| Unknown | Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| Big Pay Group (unverifiable) | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Camp Creek Claims | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Hankins & Follett Prospects | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Northgate Fluorspar District | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Northgate Mill (Facillity) | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Whale Pit (unveriifable) | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northgate in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Flood | Northgate | $5,000 | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cowdrey | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Kings Canyon | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Brownlee | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Walden | 10.7 miles | 16 | |
| Fort Boettcher | 14.4 miles | 25 | |
| Pearl | 15.1 miles | 22 | |
| Larand | 18.2 miles | 17 | |
| Hebron | 20.9 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 170025. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.











