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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.

Northgate within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

8 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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
6 July 2012Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigSENTINAL
24 July 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigCAMPFIRE
20 July 1996Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandPINKHAM
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorthwest District, CraigCROUCH
16 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
8 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresJackson CountyTRICK
13 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWALDEN
10 April 1992Recreation and ceremony20 acresJackson Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fluorine Vein PropertiesFluorine-Fluorite, Silica, Manganese, CalciumPast Producer1925, 1943
Fluorspar Vein PropertiesFluorine-Fluorite, Calcium, SilicaPast Producer1900, 1922
FluorsparMolybdenumOccurrenceFluorite, Ilsemannite
UnknownMolybdenumOccurrence
Big Pay Group (unverifiable)Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Camp Creek ClaimsFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Hankins & Follett ProspectsFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Northgate Fluorspar DistrictFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1918
Northgate Mill (Facillity)Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerUnderground
Whale Pit (unveriifable)Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011FloodNorthgate$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Cowdrey2.1 miles17
Kings Canyon4.6 miles18
Brownlee7.0 miles17
Walden10.7 miles16
Fort Boettcher14.4 miles25
Pearl15.1 miles22
Larand18.2 miles17
Hebron20.9 miles15

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.