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Pictou, Colorado

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Walsenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81089. It lies near Walsen Crag. The Survey maps it on the Walsenburg North quadrangle. It stands 6,280 feet above sea level.

Pictou within Huerfano County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Pictou between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,805 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism30
Smoking10
Natural3
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWALSENBURG
20 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
19 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
18 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuerfano Countynot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWALSENBURG
11 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 July 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresHuerfano Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huerfano County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Pictou: 10 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, Construction, CoalOccurrenceSedimentary
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Huerfano Granite QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kirkpatrick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Huerfano 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
Maitland1.6 miles15
Walsenburg2.0 miles18
Delcarbon6.1 miles15
Strong6.9 miles15
Cuchara Junction7.0 miles16
Tioga7.3 miles15
Alamo7.8 miles15
Monson10.3 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on PictouAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988065The 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 194254. 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.