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Old Fort Lyons, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the McClave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81052. It stands on Graveyard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prowers quadrangle.

Old Fort Lyons within Bent County

On record in Old Fort Lyons

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Old Fort Lyons between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,144 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined48
Recreation and ceremony21
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
27 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWiley Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
1 September 1995Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresProwers Countynot named
1 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresProwers Countynot named
8 August 1995Recreation and ceremony10 acresProwers Countynot named
8 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresProwers Countynot named
4 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresProwers Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Old Fort Lyons: 10 unknowns, 9 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Bent 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
Prowers1.0 miles17
Keesee2.8 miles15
Four Corners Crossing4.8 miles17
McClave5.0 miles15
Able5.7 miles17
Big Bend7.4 miles15
Lubers8.4 miles16
Hasty9.9 miles19

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 Q122557521The 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 195555. 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.