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Portland, Colorado

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Penrose-Portland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81226. It stands on Hardscrabble Creek. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle. It stands 5,043 feet above sea level.

Portland within Fremont County

On record in Portland

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Portland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePenrose Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
10 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWilliamsburg Volunteer Fire Department (Florence Fire Protection District)UNKNOWN
28 August 2016Naturalunder an acrePenrose Volunteer Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
28 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersFLORENCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Portland: 12 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. 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
Artesian Well #22GeothermalProducer
Unidentified Placer OccurrenceGoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
White King, State RockSilicaProducer
Beaver CreekClayProducer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Portland Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rock Creek PitClayProducer
Siloam Operation PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Concrete1.5 miles23
Penrose2.3 miles24
Florence5.0 miles24
Williamsburg6.8 miles24
Coal Creek6.9 miles23
Rockvale7.5 miles23
Brookside9.0 miles24
Chandler (historical)9.4 miles23

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 PortlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16898703The 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 192042. 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.