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Piedra, Colorado

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Arboles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81122. It stands on Yellowjacket Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chimney Rock quadrangle.

Piedra within Archuleta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Piedra between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,842 acres in total. 115 started naturally. 3 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
Natural115
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2

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
9 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National Forest1292
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreSan Juan National ForestSHEEP
6 September 1998Smokingunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyCABEZON
30 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSouthern Ute AgencyRUIN MINE
26 September 2011Natural2.0 acresSouthern Ute AgencyYOUTH CAMP RX
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Juan National Forest944
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Juan National Forest942
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Juan National Forest943

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archuleta County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Piedra: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Archuleta 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
Chimney Rock (historical)0.5 miles17
Stollsteimer5.7 miles17
Dyke7.7 miles21
Altura8.4 miles21
Lonetree9.7 miles21
Nutria11.4 miles21
Kearns11.5 miles21
Arboles14.1 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 184445. 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.