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Peabodys, Colorado

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80456. It stands on South Tarryall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Como quadrangle.

Peabodys within Park County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Peabodys between 1994 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 August 1995Smokingunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestP.I.T.
16 August 1994Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
9 July 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestBOREAS
5 July 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestPATIO
23 July 2002Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestPALMER #1
23 July 2002Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestPALMER #2
16 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersN/A
15 July 2013Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestRASPBERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Peabodys: 15 occurrences, 10 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Iron. 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
Fortune Placer MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Iron Hill PlacerGold, PlatinumPast ProducerStream Placer
Iron MineIron, Manganese, Zinc, CopperOccurrence
Iron Mountain ClaimsGold, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Quartz
UnknownUraniumPast Producer
UnknownZinc, LeadProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ute MineZinc, IronOccurrence
Beaver Creek MineIronProducerChalcopyrite, Magnetite, Pyrrhotite
Iron MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Park 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
Como2.9 miles23
Jefferson7.0 miles26
Quartzville (historical)8.0 miles33
Alma Junction8.4 miles33
Dudley (historical)8.4 miles33
Alma8.4 miles33
Fairplay9.4 miles23
Park City (historical)10.0 miles33

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 Q122566382The 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 183386. 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.