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Pinewood Springs, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Estes Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80540. It lies near Little Elk Park. The Survey maps it on the Pinewood Lake quadrangle.

Pinewood Springs within Larimer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Pinewood Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,459 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 2 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
Natural50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBUTTON ROCK II
16 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named
15 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandLYONS GULCH FIRE
15 September 1995Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandDEVILS GULCH
13 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named
12 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandCR 47
12 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named
1 September 2001Natural5.0 acresArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBUTTON ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larimer 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 Pinewood Springs: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Uranium, Stone, Dimension, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Bashor MineFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Bat Claim No. 1Copper, UraniumPast Producer
Colorado Rose Red QuarryGraniteProducer
OhlineGold, SilverPast Producer
Sisk PropertyUranium, Molybdenum, GraphiteOccurrenceGraphite, Molybdenite, Pitchblende
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Bashor MineFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
HoweStone, DimensionPast Producer
UnknownStone, DimensionProducerGranite
Bat No. 1 ClaimUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Larimer 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
Glen Comfort9.4 miles23
Waltonia9.7 miles23
Loveland Heights9.8 miles23
Olympus Heights9.9 miles23
Cedar Cove11.0 miles23
Midway11.0 miles23
Drake11.0 miles23
Estes Park11.3 miles30

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 Q122541047The 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 178001. 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.