Perigo, Colorado

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Central City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80422. It stands on Colorado Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nederland quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Perigo within Gilpin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 29 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.

1905 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500
1910 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1912 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1942 USGS Nederland quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1944 USGS Nederland quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Denver quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Nederland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Denver West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Perigo (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined	91
Recreation and ceremony	42
Natural	14
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nederland Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SITE 11 FIRE
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nederland Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	925A
7 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	355C
7 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	PICKLE
5 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	512
5 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	TWELVE POINT FIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilpin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 176 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 176 workings within 5 miles of Perigo (historical): 97 past producers, 52 occurrences, 23 producers, 3 unknowns. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Belfast & Shamrock	Lead, Zinc, Cadmium, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	1863
Big Moon	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Blue Vein, Winnebago, Campania, Deadwood	Gold, Tungsten	Occurrence	Gold
Carrol Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Uranium	Unknown
Chihuahua Tungsten Mine	Tungsten, Lead, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Cyclops	Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Dory Hill	Iron, Niobium (Columbium), Mica, Quartz, Feldspar	Occurrence	Columbite, Feldspar, Magnetite, Mica, Quartz
Dory Hill	Niobium (Columbium)	Past Producer
Ellis Lode	Gold, Garnet, Copper, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Evergreen, Gold Standard, Nancy Lee	Copper, Gold, Silver	Producer	Copper, Gold, Silver

Every working recorded in Gilpin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gilpin	1.5 miles	29
Wideawake (historical)	2.1 miles	27
Apex (historical)	2.3 miles	27
Baltimore (historical)	2.9 miles	29
American City (historical)	3.0 miles	27
Rollinsville	3.1 miles	29
Nugget	3.2 miles	27
Phoenix (historical)	3.4 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 181037. 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.