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Pinecliffe, Colorado

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1983. It lies in ZIP code area 80471. It lies near Boiling Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Tungsten quadrangle. It stands 8,009 feet above sea level.

Pinecliffe within Gilpin County

On record in Pinecliffe

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

287 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Pinecliffe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,273 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined171
Recreation and ceremony51
Natural34
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSITE 11 FIRE
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNederland Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland925A
7 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland355C
6 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilpin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 162 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 162 workings within 5 miles of Pinecliffe: 112 past producers, 28 occurrences, 15 producers, 3 prospects. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver. 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
Clark TunnelTungsten, Silver, GoldUnknown
Golder-Passarella ClaimsUraniumProspect
KekiongaGold, Silver, TungstenPast Producer
Lucky Strike, Last NickelTungsten, Lead, ZincProducerFerberite, Galena
NuggetGold, Zinc, Lead, SilverPast Producer
OtegoTinPast Producer
Stevens Camp TunnelsSilver, Gold, Lead, Tungsten, ZincPast Producer
Blue Vein, Winnebago, Campania, DeadwoodGold, TungstenOccurrenceGold
Kekionga-Magnolia VeinGold, TungstenProducerVein
Nederland MillFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lincoln Hills1.7 miles25
Pactolus2.1 miles25
Rollinsville4.0 miles29
Gilpin5.1 miles29
Phoenix (historical)5.7 miles29
Perigo (historical)6.5 miles29
Wideawake (historical)7.5 miles27
Baltimore (historical)8.0 miles29

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 PinecliffeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475741The 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 181137. 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.