Plateau City, Colorado

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Collbran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81624. It lies near Clover Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Collbran quadrangle.

Plateau City within Mesa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1955 USGS Collbran quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Plateau City between 1992 and 2017, burning about 316 acres in total. 42 started naturally. None was 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
Natural	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
29 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	SMALLEY GU
21 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
2 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	SMALLEY GL
17 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
16 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	LATER GJ MEX 550
15 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	HAWXHURST
10 September 2001	Natural	20 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	CLOVER
1 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	MESA ASSIST 14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Collbran

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plateau City in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2016: 1 debris flow, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 deaths. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2014	Debris Flow	Plateau City	3 killed, $25,000	A landslide consisting of about 30 million cubic meters of rock and soil broke loose from the side of the Grand Mesa near the 10,000 foot level and traveled nearly 3 miles down the West Salt Creek drainage. Three ranchers were apparently buried by the landslide which deposited debris over 100 feet deep along the slide path. This was one of the largest landslides ever documented in the United States. This landslide occurred during the period of peak snowmelt and just after heavy rainfall occurred in the area. Radar estimates and nearby rain gauge measurements for the 36 hour period prior to the landslide were around one inch.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Plateau City	$20,000	During the period of snowmelt on the Grand Mesa, an estimated 30,000 cubic meters of dirt and rock material slid off the head scarp and into the sag pond at the head of the West Salt Creek Landslide area. This caused a large volume of water in the sag pond to overflow the debris dam and cut a channel up to 100 feet deep and 50 feet wide down the 2.8 mile long face of the landslide. The flood waters continued down below the landslide along West Salt Creek at depths over 12 feet and then down to the larger Plateau Creek where the flood waters came up to within about a foot of Rodeo Road in Collbran. The flash flood caused damage to some roads, fences, a barn and horse riding area.

Every storm recorded in Mesa 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
Collbran	1.1 miles	13
Molina	5.3 miles	15
Mesa	9.7 miles	16
Heiberger	9.8 miles	12
John Held Corner	10.7 miles	16
De Beque	14.1 miles	17
Mesa Lakes	14.2 miles	16
Mesa Lakes Resort	14.2 miles	16

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 Q122565031

The 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 175066. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.